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HISTORICAL
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
ILLINOIS
WITH
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHIES
Compiled and Edited
by
WILLIAM P. MUNSELL
VOLUME III
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
1943
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
BY
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY
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INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT
n this volume have been brought together by the late William P.
Munsell accounts of persons without whose outstanding contributions
to business, public welfare and the essentials of truly fine living, Illinois
would not have held the place of rank it has held among the states of the
Union.
As indicated in his earlier publications, Mr. Munsell used as his crite-
rion for the selection of the individuals to be included "Worth of Charac-
ter," for he firmly believed as he so often said, "without it such other
assets as knowledge, strength, health, power and wealth, are often misused
to destroy. Worth of Character determines the use which people make of
all their other potential assets."
Exerting himself to finish all of the biographies and make good his
promise that this volume would be published, he worked for months be-
yond the point when most persons would have given up active work. On
October 14, 1942 he was released from suffering which resulted from his
service in the Air Corps during World War I.
In his field, and among his friends, he contributed as largely toward
his ideals of character and accomplishment as did those whom he chose
for inclusion in his publications. We believe, as he firmly hoped, that the
accounts of lives here set forth form a distinctive contribution, not only to
an interest in the lives of people, but to an understanding of the social his-
tory of the period.
Upon his passing, friends who worked with Mr. Munsell in the pub-
lication of his earlier volumes volunteered to assist in putting the manu-
scripts which he had meticulously prepared into the publication which he
had planned. To these and all who have so whole-heartedly assisted in
putting the work into print, the family expresses profound gratitude.
Should errors have slipped in, it can well be understood that circumstances
made impossible complete verification.
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BIOGRAPHIES
Volume III
Page
Anderson, E. Malcolm 1
Anderson, Peirce 2
Armour, Philip Danforth 3
Atwood, Myron Comfort 4
Atwood, Reuben Jay 5
Barnard, Hayden Suffield 6
Bloss, Sidney M 7
Brandenburg, George Graham 8
Brown, W. Gray 9
Brunner, John 10
Bryan, Thomas Joseph 11
Buckley, Michael Joseph 12
Cadwallader, Bassett 13
Chrimes, John 14
Cooper, Homer Hunt 15
Cunningham, Frank Simpson 16
Dalmar, Hugo 17
Douglass, William Angus 18
Fairbank, Kellogg 19
Fairman, Franklin 20
Falcon, Joseph Guilford 22
Fantus, Bernard 23
Farr, Albert George 24
Garcia, John Adrian 25
Gerstenberg, Erich 26
Gindele, Charles William 27
Gloede, Richard Frederick 28
Goddard, Leroy Albert 30
Goodrich, Albert Whaling 31
Graff, Walter A 32
Graham, Ernest Robert 33
Gregory, Robert Bowman 34
Griffen, Felix Joseph 35
Page
Gross, Alfred H 36
Gurley, William Wirt 37
Henning, Albert Francis 38
Hibbard, William Gold 39
Hollister, John Hamilcar 41
Holmes, Frank 43
Hoyt, Phelps B 44
Humiston, Charles Edward 45
Hunter, W. Kelso 46
Hurlbut, Charles Hovey 47
James, Robert Lee 48
Joslyn, Leslie Burritt 49
Koch, Theodore Wesley 50
Linthicum, Charles C 53
MacMurray, Donald 54
MacMurray, James Edwin 55
Martin, Franklin H 56
Mather, Henry Howard 58
McCammon, George H 59
Meyercord, George Rudolph 60
Munsell, William P 61
Munsell, William Watkins 62
Nelson, Oliver Rockney 64
Noble, William Lincoln 65
O'Heron, John J 66
Ostrom, James Augustus 67
Owen, Alfred Wallace 68
Pardridge, Charles Wellington 69
Pickard, Wilder Austin 70
Page
Pohl, Carl Matthias, Sr 71
Pomeroy, Frank William 72
Post, Philip Sidney 73
Reed, Charles Bert 75
Reed, Clare Osborne 75
Rew, Henry Cunningham 76
Ringling, Charles Edward 77
Robinson, Russell Dean 78
Roesch, Julius Albert, Jr 79
Russell, Albert Murdock 80
Scott, Robert Bruce 81
Shumway, Philip Raymond 82
Smith, William Thomas 83
Snow, Clyde Mason 84
Somerville, Thomas Alexander 85
Sparrow, William Warburton Knox 86
Stafford, S. Bruce 87
Page
Stearns, William Guilford 88
Strand, Nels A 89
Street, Wade Livingston 90
Strom, Eugene N 91
Swift, Polemus Hamilton 92
Thorpe, John Norton 93
Tobin, Edward J 94
Tucker, Silas Alfred 96
Walter, Lydia Chrimes 14
Ward, A. Montgomery 97
Ware, Lyman 98
Westerlin, John Martin 99
Westerlin, Nels 100
Williams, Carl Schurz 101
Williams, Hemmerle Bowers 101
Winters, Andrew L 102
PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Volume III
Facing page
Anderson, E. Malcolm 1
Anderson, Peirce 2
Armour, Philip Danforth 3
Atwood, Myron Comfort 4
Atwood, Reuben Jay 5
Barnard, Hayden Suffield 6
Bloss, Sidney M 7
Brandenburg, George Graham 8
Brown, W. Gray 9
Brown, Mrs. W. Gray 9
B runner, John 10
Bryan, Thomas Joseph 11
Buckley, Michael Joseph 12
Cadwallader, Bassett 13
Chrimes, John 14
Cooper, Homer Hunt 15
Cunningham, Frank Simpson 16
Cunningham, Oliver Baty 16
Dalmar, Hugo 17
Dalmar, Mrs. Hugo 17
Douglass, William Angus 18
Fairman, Franklin 20
Farr, Albert George 24
Garcia, John Adrian 25
Gerstenberg, Erich 26
Gindele, Charles William 27
Gloede, Richard Frederick 28
Gloede, Mrs. Richard Frederick 28
Goddard, Leroy Albert 30
Goodrich, Albert Whaling 31
Graff, Walter A 32
Graham, Ernest Robert 33
Gregory, Robert Bowman 34 Pardridge, Charles Wellington 69
Facing page
Griffen, Felix Joseph 35
Gross, Alfred H 36
Gurley, William Wirt 37
Henning, Albert Francis 38
Hibbard, William Gold 39
Hollister, John Hamilcar 41
Holmes, Frank 43
Hoyt, Phelps B 44
Humiston, Charles Edward 45
Hunter, W. Kelso 46
Hurlbut, Charles Hovey 47
James, Robert Lee 48
Joslyn, Leslie Burritt 49
Koch, Theodore Wesley 50
Linthicum, Charles C 53
MacMurray, Donald 54
MacMurray, James Edwin 55
Martin, Franklin H 56
Mather, Henry Howard 58
McCammon, George H 59
Munsell, William P 61
Munsell, William Watkins 62
Nelson, Oliver Rockney 64
Nelson, Mrs. Oliver Rockney 64
Noble, William Lincoln 65
O'Heron, John J 66
Ostrom, James Augustus 67
Ostrom, Mrs. James Augustus 67
Owen, Alfred Wallace 68
Facing page
Pickard, Wilder Austin 70
Pohl, Carl Matthias, Sr 71
Pomeroy Frank William 72
Pomeroy, Mrs. Frank William 72
Pomeroy, Sylvester Clark 72
Pomeroy, Mrs. Sylvester Clark 72
Pomeroy, Memorial 72
Pomeroy Coat-of-Arms 72
Post, Philip Sidney 73
Reed, Charles Bert 75
Reed, Clare Osborne 75
Rew, Henry Cunningham 76
Ringling, Charles Edward 77
Robinson, Russell Dean 78
Roesch, Julius Albert, Jr 79
Russell, Albert Murdock 80
Scott, Robert Bruce 81
Smith, William Thomas 83
Snow, Clyde Mason 84
Somerville, Thomas Alexander 85
Facing page
Sparrow, William Warburton Knox 86
Stafford, S. Bruce 87
Stearns, William Guilford 88
Strand, Nels A 89
Strand, Mrs. Nels A 89
Street, Wade Livingston 90
Strom, Eugene N 91
Swift, Polemus Hamilton 92
Thorpe, John Norton 93
Tobin, Edward J 94
Tucker, Silas Alfred 96
Walter, Lydia Chrimes 14
Ward, A. Montgomery 97
Ware, Lyman 98
Westerlin, John Martin 99
Westerlin, Nels 100
Williams, Carl Schurz 101
Williams, Hemmerle Bowers 101
Winters, Andrew L 102
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E. MALCOLM ANDERSON
E. MALCOLM ANDERSON
Tf Malcolm Anderson was born in Chi-
-*--'• cago, Illinois, August 5, 1891, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Anderson. He
graduated from the Moseley School and Uni-
versity High School in Chicago and then
attended Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio.
He began his business career, in Cleve-
land, Ohio, in the paint and oil business, with
the Vortex Manufacturing Company.
During the first World War he served on
the Committee on Public Information with
headquarters in New York City.
Mr. Anderson was a man of exceptionally
fine abilities. He was elected vice-president
and sales manager of the American Tag
Company and he was head of their large
plant at Newark, New Jersey, for four years.
He was transferred to Chicago in 1923 and
he continued his connection with the Amer-
ican Tag Company here as long as he lived.
Mr. Anderson was married, October 28,
1916, at Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Isabel
MacMurray, a daughter of James E. Mac-
Murray and Katharine (Merrill) MacMur-
ray. Her father was the founder and presi-
dent of the Acme Steel Company and is now
chairman of its Board of Directors. He was
formerly State Senator for Illinois. He will
also long be remembered for his philanthro-
pies, including his large gifts to MacMurray
College at Jacksonville, Illinois.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have two sons and
two daughters, E. Malcolm Anderson, Jr.;
Jane Anderson Mullins; James E. Ander-
son; and Katharine Anderson.
Mr. Anderson was a vestryman at St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in Chicago. He was
also a director of the Chicago Athletic Asso-
ciation, and of the South Shore Country Club,
and was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fra-
ternity.
He was a trustee of Kenyon College and
was very devoted to that institution.
The death of Mr. Anderson occurred in his
forty-seventh year, on March 20, 1938. Few
men of his age have proved themselves so
useful and have been so comprehensive in
their interests. He left a splendid record
behind him.
PEIRCE ANDERSON
THE LATE Peirce Anderson, of Chicago,
was one of the truly great architects of
his generation.
He was born in Oswego, New York, on
February 20, 1870, a son of Hugh and Han-
nah Louisa (Peirce) Anderson. He received
his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Har-
vard University in 1892. Then he entered
Johns Hopkins University, and was grad-
uated with the degree of Electrical Engineer
in 1894. He went abroad for his post-grad-
uate work and studied at the Ecole des
Beaux-Arts, in Paris. Here he received the
first government medal, of the First Class
(architecte diplome par le gouvernement),
ever to be conferred upon an American stu-
dent in architecture. This was in 1900.
In 1901 Mr. Anderson came to Chicago
and joined D. H. Burnham & Company,
architects. He remained with this firm, and
its successors, until his death. From 1917 to
his death he was a member of the firm of
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.
A review of Mr. Anderson's very remark-
able work in his profession includes the fact
that he designed or supervised the design of
the Field Museum, Marshall Field Annex,
the Continental and Commercial Bank Build-
ing, the Peoples Gas Building, the Kimball
Building, the Wrigley Building, the Illinois
Merchants Bank Building, the Straus Build-
ing, the new Union Station, and others, all in
Chicago. The list also includes, among
others, the Federal Reserve Banks of Chi-
cago, Kansas City, Missouri, and Dallas,
Texas, and a branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas City at Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma; the United States Post Office at
Washington, District of Columbia ; the Union
Station at Washington and the Columbus
Memorial fountain which stands in front of
it; the Union Trust Building at Cleveland,
Ohio; the First National Bank at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; David Whitney Building and
Ford Building at Detroit, Michigan; the
Continental Trust Building in Baltimore,
Maryland; the Frick Building and Annex
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and the Wm.
Filene's Sons Co. store in Boston, Massa-
chusetts.
Mr. Anderson stands as one of the most
noted designers that the profession of ar-
chitecture in America has produced. Recog-
nitions, in many forms, came to him. The
one which perhaps he cherished most was his
appointment by President Taft as a member
of the Fine Arts Commission, succeeding Mr.
Daniel Hudson Burnham at the time of his
death in 1912.
Mr. Anderson loved Chicago and he
always visioned it as it will be years hence,
one of the greatest and most beautiful cities
of the world. Many of the hopes he wished
to see realized that this end might be reached,
he, with his own hands, brought into actual
being.
Mr. Anderson was a member of the Archi-
tectural League, the National Sculptors So-
ciety, the American Painters; and he also
belonged to the Chicago Club, the Casino
Club, the Chicago Commonwealth Club, Cliff
Dwellers, the Engineers' Club, Glen View
Golf Club, the Harvard Club and the Uni-
versity Club of Chicago.
Mr. Anderson died on February 10, 1924.
His going has taken from Illinois one of her
most able men. He was as thoroughly en-
joyed as a friend as he was respected for his
distinguished ability. His high ideals will
have an enduring effect on the life of his asso-
ciates, and his kindly and winning spirit will
ever continue to animate his friends.
A permanent scholarship has been estab-
lished in his memory, by his sister, to enable
the winner of the Peirce Anderson Travelling
Scholarship to study abroad.
His home was in Chicago for more than
twenty years. He never married. He is sur-
vived by his sister, Miss Mary Louise
Anderson.
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PHILIP DANFORTH ARMOUR
T3hilip D. Armour was born at Stock-
** bridge, Madison County, New York, May
16, 1832, a son of Danforth and Julianna
(Brooks) Armour. His father was a farmer,
who gave his family of six boys and two girls
such educational advantages as were to be
obtained in the nearby country schools.
At the age of twenty Philip D. Armour
went to California during the gold rush, and
encountered all the hardships and privations
incident to Westward travel in that day. He
returned East four years later, and located
in Milwaukee, where he formed a partner-
ship with Frederick B. Miles in the commis-
sion business. This firm continued until 1 863,
when Mr. Armour became associated with
John Plankinton in the pork-packing industry.
This venture marked a turning point in Mr.
Armour's career.
Mr. Armour's brother, Herman O. Ar-
mour, had established himself in Chicago in
1862 in the grain commission business, but
three years later he turned his interests over
to a younger brother, Joseph F. Armour, and
went to New York to assume charge of a
new office under the firm name of Armour,
Plankinton & Company.
The firm name of H. O. Armour & Com-
pany was continued in Chicago, however,
until 1870. In 1868 this firm commenced to
pack hogs, as well as to handle grain, and
this part of the business was conducted under
the name of Armour & Company. In 1870
Armour & Company assumed all the business
transacted in Chicago.
In 1871 the firm of Plankinton & Armour
was established at Kansas City under the
charge of Simeon B. Armour. In 1875
Philip D. Armour came to Chicago to direct
the business of Armour & Company here.
The growth of Armour & Company since
that time has been remarkable. Philip D.
Armour remained its active head and dictated
its general policies, continuing until his death
to be an important factor in the success which
the firm attained.
He also gave largely of his wealth to vari-
ous charitable and educational institutions. In
1881 his brother, Joseph F. Armour, died,
leaving in his charge a trust fund of $100,-
000 which was to establish an institution
whose purpose should be to reach the people
with the teachings and influence of the gospel
of Christ, and to insure the care and develop-
ment of the children and youth of that part
of Chicago in which it should be located.
Philip D. Armour added to this fund himself
and multiplied its amount many times. The
Armour Mission, the Armour flats, and, later,
the Armour Institute of Technology, have
been the result of these benefactions.
Philip D. Armour was married at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, in 1862 to Miss Belle Ogden,
daughter of Jonathan Ogden. Two sons
were born to them: J. Ogden Armour, and
Philip D. Armour, Junior.
Philip D. Armour passed away in 1901, in
his sixty-ninth year. He directed the devel-
opment and growth of one of the nation's
greatest industries for a quarter of a century.
The combination of this service and his many
philanthropies places him among those out-
standing personalities who have made Chi-
cago the leading commercial and cultural cen-
ter that it is today.
MYRON COMFORT ATWOOD
A/Tyron Comfort Atwood was born Au-
±V *■ gust 24, 1863, on a farm in Oswego
Township, Illinois, the son of Comfort B. and
Cynthia (Bennett) Atwood.
He received his education in the country
primary schools, and, when about seventeen
years of age, entered the employ of the Bur-
lington Railroad as ticket agent and operator
at Downers Grove, Earlville and Ottawa. He
was, a little later, promoted to the position of
freight agent in Aurora.
From 1903-1905 he acted as superintend-
ent and manager of the Fulton County Nar-
row Gauge Railway in Lewistown, Illinois.
This railroad was widened to standard gauge
under Mr. Atwood's supervision.
In 1906 Mr. Atwood became associated
with the Western Wheeled Scraper Company
at Aurora, Illinois, as assistant manager, and
upon the death of Captain C. H. Smith in
1910, was promoted to the position of general
manager. His highest and last promotion
came in 1925, upon the death of Judge W. I.
Babb, when he became president, the office he
held at the time of his passing, February 26,
1929.
June 1, 1886, Mr. Atwood married Miss
Mabel L. Wiley in Earlville. Three children
were born: Paul Wiley, Harold Wiley and
Mrs. Ruth Atwood Judd.
In the twenty-three years Mr. Atwood had
been an executive of the Western Wheeled
Scraper Company, he had seen the plant grow
into one of the largest industries of its kind
in the world, and he had contributed in no
small part to this tremendous success. Its
products are to be found in practically every
country on the globe.
For over a quarter of a century he filled
one of the most responsible positions of this
important industry, and gave his life unself-
ishly for the company. Honor and loyalty
were the foundation of his character and he
was held in warm affection by a host of the
men who knew him.
Mr. Atwood was one of the best liked men
in the city of Aurora.
Mr. Atwood was a member of the Union
League Club, Aurora Country Club, Aurora
Lodge No. 254, A. F. & A. M., Knight
Templars, Oriental Consistory and Medinah
Temple.
MYRON COMFORT ATWOOD
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REUBEN JAY ATWOOD
REUBEN JAY ATWOOD
P\r. Reuben J. Atvvood was well known
*-* in Chicago for years because of the ex-
cellence of his work in medicine and surgery,
especially relating to the treatment of diseases
of the eye, ear, nose and throat. His family
is an old and notable one in American history,
dating back to John Alden.
Reuben J. Atwood went to DePauw Uni-
versity at Greencastle, Indiana, where he was
a member of the Phi Gamma Delta Frater-
nity. Then he entered the Medical School
of Northwestern University and later was
graduated there with his degree in 1890.
Subsequently he took extensive post graduate
work in New York City and abroad, espe-
cially at Vienna. He became recognized as an
authority on eye, ear, nose and throat trou-
bles and was exceptionally successful in their
treatment.
In addition to his private practice which
he maintained for many years in Chicago, Dr.
Atwood devoted much of his time and
thought to education. He was so well trained
and so thorough in everything he did that he
was a very effective teacher.
During the First World War he served in
the Medical Corps of the United States
Army. It was he who developed many of
the tests given, at that time, to aviation
recruits.
Dr. Atwood will also be remembered as
one of the early medical examiners for the
Boy Scouts of America. He was very devoted
to the Boy Scouts and his influence was a
great blessing.
The death of Dr. R. J. Atwood came July
2, 1937. He was endowed with a rare gift of
human understanding, and fine abilities, and
his life represents a great deal of good accom-
plished.
HAYDEN SUFFIELD BARNARD
The late Dr. Hayden S. Barnard of
Chicago was born in Monroe, Michigan,
August 19, 1866, a son of Richard and Mary
Anna (Barnett) Barnard. The parents be-
came early residents of Chicago, and Richard
Barnard will be remembered as one of the
most prominent pioneer dry-goods merchants
of this city. He and his wife moved away
from Chicago shortly before Hayden S. Bar-
nard was born; but they again took up resi-
dence here when their son was about one year
old.
Hayden S. Barnard attended the public
schools of Chicago, and later the old Chi-
cago University. Having decided to become
a physician, he entered Rush Medical Col-
lege, and received his degree of Doctor of
Medicine in 1889. For some time thereafter
he was an interne at Michael Reese Hospital.
Following that, he went abroad and devoted
two years to post-graduate study in Vienna,
Munich, Heidelberg and Zurich, specializing
in gynecology.
Upon his return to Chicago, Doctor Bar-
nard entered upon a private practice. For
many years he maintained offices at the corner
of Twenty-sixth and Wallace streets, but later
his offices were at Forty-third Street and
Grand Boulevard, and recently he moved to
the Medical Arts Building on Sixty-third
Street. His work was of incalculable value
to the many people it was his pleasure to
serve in the three decades just past.
Doctor Barnard was lecturer on gyne-
cology at the Post Graduate Hospital,
Chicago, and his counsel and help were of
great benefit. He was an esteemed member
of the American Medical Association, the
Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago
Medical Society, and of the German Medical
Society of Chicago, of which latter organiza-
tion he was vice president.
The marriage of Doctor Barnard to the
Baroness Von Georgii-Georgenau took place
in Stuttgart, Germany, May 2, 1894. That
same year they established their home at Chi-
cago, and continued to reside in this city,
making frequent visits abroad. Doctor and
Mrs. Barnard became the parents of five chil-
dren: Rosalie, Dr. Hayden E., Dr. Richard
E., Sophie E. and Harold S. Barnard.
Dr. Hayden S. Barnard died August 2,
1925. There are many admirable things to
recall of his long intensely useful life in
Chicago. His character was of the highest,
his kindness and his large charities brought
happiness into numerous homes, and his
work in his profession established him as
one of the most able gynecologists of his
time.
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SIDNEY M. BLOSS
Cidney M. Bloss was born in Nebraska
^ City, Nebraska, April 17, 1866, a son of
James G. and Catherine (Rector) Bloss.
It was back in 1882 that he came to Illi-
nois and located in Chicago. His first work
here was in the employ of W. P. Rend &
Company, coal dealers. His next position
was that of bookkeeper for the W. H. Hickox
Lumber Company, of Chicago. Thus began
his long and successful career in the lumber
business. He remained with that firm for
three years. Then he and his cousin, Ned
Baker, formed a partnership, known as Bloss
& Baker, and they purchased the lumberyard
of Mr. Bloss' former employer. Their busi-
ness proved to be a success.
Some time later Mr. Baker withdrew, but
Mr. Bloss continued in the retail lumber busi-
ness as S. M. Bloss & Company, for about
three years. At that time he discontinued the
lumber business, and, under the same firm
name, became engaged in the real-estate busi-
ness. The greater part of the firm's transac-
tions was in the handling of subdivision
property.
In 1903 Mr. Bloss became identified with
the Lyon Lumber Company of Garyville,
Louisiana, and went there to superintend the
building of their new plant, which included
the erection of the first steel constructed lum-
ber mill in the South. Mr. Bloss was general
manager of the Lyon Lumber Company from
the time the mill was built, right up to the
close of his life. Throughout the latter part
of this period he was also president of this
company.
The Lyon Lumber Company had one of
the finest and most modern mills in the entire
South, and its remarkable equipment and suc-
cessful operation must be largely credited to
Mr. Bloss, and to the strong, progressive
influence he exerted there for so many years.
In addition, Mr. Bloss was also owner of
the firm of S. M. Bloss & Company, invest-
ment bankers ; president of the Garyville Land
Company, Inc.; president of the Garyville
Northern Railroad Company; and vice-presi-
dent of the Continental Timber Land Com-
pany. For many years following the forma-
tion of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers'
Association, Mr. Bloss held the office of vice-
president of that organization. He was an
outstanding personality in the lumber indus-
try of the country.
Sidney M. Bloss was married November
25, 1897, to Miss Alice Williams of Wau-
kesha, Wisconsin, daughter of William J.
and Jane (Evans) Williams. Mr. and Mrs.
Bloss have two daughters: Katherine Jane
Bloss (Mrs. Col. Eugene N. Slappey)
and Helen W. Bloss (Mrs. Taylor D.
Ward). There are six grandchildren: Alice
and Caroline Slappey, Taylor D. Ward,
Junior, Sidney C. Ward, Bruce W. Ward,
and Craig Bloss Ward. A son, Richard
W. Bloss, by a former marriage, is now
deceased.
Mr. Bloss belonged to the Presbyterian
Church. He was formerly a member of the
Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, and more
recently of the First Presbyterian Church of
Evanston.
He was a member of the Mid-Day Club,
and the South Shore Country Club.
Mr. Bloss died at his home February 9,
1933.
GEORGE GRAHAM BRANDENBURG
George Graham Brandenburg was born
September 10, 1861, a son of Francis
M. Brandenburg and Ruth (Graham) Bran-
denburg. He grew up as a country boy at
Geneseo, Illinois, working in a country store
and later as a miner.
It was about 1880 that he located in Chi-
cago. From that time on his record was one
of outstanding success. He and his brother
began business as Brandenburg Brothers in
the manufacture of bicycle pedals. They
eventually became active in many branches
of production and sales and were one of the
best known firms in their field in Chicago.
Mr. Brandenburg was an early associate
of Vincent Bendix, financing one of Mr. Ben-
dix' early patents in which he retained an
interest. It was the Bendix Drive which is
used today in automobile self-starters all over
the world.
Mr. Brandenburg was chairman of the
board of directors of the South Shore Na-
tional Bank.
Mr. Brandenburg was married in 1897 to
Miss Helen Louise Howe. There are two
daughters, Mrs. Carl G. Leigh of Chicago,
and Mrs. John H. Weiss of Augusta, Ga.
There are three grandchildren, George Gra-
ham Weiss; John R. Weiss; and Carl G.
Leigh, Jr.
Mr. Brandenburg owned one of the first
automobiles to operate on the streets of
Chicago; and, so far as we know, Mrs. Bran-
denburg was the first woman to drive an auto-
mobile in that city.
Several years ago Mr. Brandenburg
erected a memorial tablet at Geneseo, Illinois,
commemorating the site on which his grand-
parents had lived and which was once a sta-
tion for the pioneer stage coach in that
region.
Mr. Brandenburg was a charter member
of the South Shore Country Club and of
Olympia Fields Country Club.
He was president of the Island Hunting
Club, and a member of the Illinois Sports-
men's Club. He was appointed by Governor
Horner on the Advisory Board of the De-
partment of Conservation.
The death of George Graham Branden-
burg came, in his seventy-ninth year, on June
15, 1940. He was a man of exceptional
worth and was one of the distinguished fig-
ures in the business life of Chicago.
GEORGE GRAHAM BRAXDEXm RG
UNIVERSITY Of ILUWOtS
URBAN*
tlHHARY
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URBANA
W. GRAY BROWN
AIRS. W. GRAY BROWN
W. GRAY BROWN
Wr Gray Brown was born in Lancaster,
•Kentucky, May 19, 1848, a son of
Judge Ephraim Brown and Nancy (Gray)
Brown, who were very substantial pioneers
there. The Gray family is also an old
one.
He remained in the city of his birth until
he was twenty years of age, when he came to
Chicago. Shortly after the Chicago Fire of
1871, Mr. Brown took up the work of fire
insurance adjuster, and later, seeing great
opportunities through the rapid growth of
Chicago, he founded the business in which he
became so well known on the West Side of
Chicago.
Mr. Brown occupied an office on Madison
Street, near Robey, for half a century, and
had been continuously active in business nearly
up to the time of his death. He became an
outstanding figure, possessing the integrity
and sterling qualities which make for true and
lasting success. Firms and individuals would
come from near and far to have their legal
papers prepared by him, departing with satis-
faction and confidence that all matters had
been handled adequately.
Mr. Brown had varied interests, was a
great reader, and a patron of educational and
artistic affairs. His principal hobby was trav-
eling, but he never took the time to travel
extensively.
On November 28, 1912, Mr. Brown was
united in marriage to Miss Lottie Manuel,
a daughter of Ephraim S. and La Dorna
(Stevens) Manuel. Mrs. Brown died August
1, 1942. Two daughters by a former mar-
riage, Mrs. Florence Stegaman and Mrs.
Edith Bates, both of Long Beach, California,
survive.
Mr. Brown was a member of the Chicago
Real Estate Board, Chicago Athletic Associ-
ation, British Empire Association, Field
Museum, Art Institute, Chicago Historical
Society, Blair Lodge A. F. & A. M., Wiley
Eagan Chapter, R. A. M., Chicago Com-
mandery, Knights Templar, Medinah Tem-
ple, and the Masonic Veterans Association.
He was a member of the First Congregational
Church of Oak Park.
W. Gray Brown passed away November
13, 1930, in his eighty-third year.
His ability and worth were such as to com-
mand for him the respect, confidence and
good-will of every one who knew him well,
and as the years passed he became more
firmly entrenched in their affections. Few men
are so loyal to friends and to the best con-
ceptions of honor and right as was W. Gray
Brown.
JOHN BRUNNER
JOHN Brunner was born at Weddige, Swe-
den, November 22, 1864, a son of John
and Anna Brunner. He had his early school-
ing in Sweden as a boy, then entered the
Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm.
He received his degree of Civil Engineer
there in 1883. Following that he served sev-
eral years in the Engineer Corps of the
Swedish government.
In March 1888 he came to the United
States. He was made assistant engineer in the
bridge department of the Boston and Maine
Railroad Company. Then he was with the
Mt. Vernon Bridge Company of Ohio, be-
coming chief engineer of that large concern.
He supervised the design and construction
by that company of many important bridges
for the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines; the
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
Railroad Company; Cleveland, Akron and
Columbus Railroad Company; the West Side
Metropolitan Railroad Company in Chicago,
and many others.
In 1895 he was made assistant engineer of
the Engineering Department of the Carnegie
Steel Company and was soon made assistant
chief engineer of the Structural Division.
In 1896 he was made bridge engineer and
later, chief engineer of the City of Pittsburgh.
In 1902 he was chosen as assistant general
superintendent of the North Works of the
Illinois Steel Company. In 1912 he was trans-
ferred to their Chicago office and placed in
charge of Metallurgy and Inspection. From
1923 to 1936 he was manager of the Depart-
ment of Metallurgy and Inspection.
In January 1936 Mr. Brunner was ap-
pointed Consulting Engineer for the Illinois
Steel Company.
In 1919 he was knighted by the King of
Sweden for his attainments in engineering and
in research, receiving the Royal Order of the
North Star. In 1936 he received the John
Ericsson Medal from the American Society
of Swedish Engineers.
He was a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, American Society for
Testing Materials, Western Society of En-
gineers, Army Ordnance Association, Asso-
ciation of American Steel Manufacturers
(president two terms), Art Institute of Chi-
cago (life member), Chicago Engineers'
Club, the Alpine Club, and of the Masons.
He was a fellow of the American Geograph-
ical Society.
Mr. Brunner was married November 16,
1892, to Miss Cora Mitchell of Mt. Vernon,
Ohio, who survives him.
John Brunner died on June 15, 1936. He
earned a place as one of the ablest men in the
entire great steel industry of America.
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JOHN BRL'NNER
jJNIVERSITV Of Illinois
URBAN*
THOMAS JOSEPH BRYAN
THOMAS JOSEPH BRYAN
f\UR records indicate that Thomas J.
^^ Bryan was born in Warwickshire, Eng-
land, September 26, 1869, a son of Joseph
and Martha (Hatfield) Bryan.
He came to the United States when he
was still a boy. After preliminary schooling
he graduated with his degree in Theology, at
Colgate University. He then went to Ger-
many and studied Chemistry at the Univer-
sities in Gutenburg and Heidelburg. He re-
ceived the degree of Ph.D; and, later, the
honorary degree of Doctor of Science was
conferred upon him by Colgate University
in recognition of his distinguished work in
food chemistry.
Upon returning to the United States, from
his studies as a young man in Germany, he
taught chemistry for a time, at Colgate
University. From there he was called to
Williams College, and then to Wesleyan
University. From there he went to the Uni-
versity of Illinois as instructor in chemistry.
In 1906 he was appointed state analyst for
the State of Illinois. For some years he was
a member of the State Food Standards Com-
mission, and he formulated many of the laws
governing food products in this state.
In 1919 he was made chief chemist for
the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Sub-
sequently, when that business became a part
of General Foods Corporation, Mr. Bryan
was made technical advisor of that large in-
stitution. He retired from business in 1936.
Mr. Bryan was married in March, 1906,
at Champaign, Illinois, to Miss Wissie
Myers, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Myers of Champaign. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
have one son and two daughters: Robert
Hatfield Bryan; Dorothy Bryan (Mrs. J. C.
Anderson) ; and Helen Bryan (Mrs. G. R.
McClure). There are three grandchildren:
Carolyn Jean Anderson; Donald Curtis Mc-
Clure; and Thomas Malcolm McClure.
Mr. Bryan was a member of the First
Baptist Church of Oak Park, Illinois, of the
Oak Park Club, and of the Edgwood Valley
Country Club.
He was formerly president of the Ameri-
can Chemistry Association.
The death of Thomas J. Bryan occurred
January 23, 1939, in his seventieth year. He
was one of the most highly regarded food
chemists in America.
11
MICHAEL JOSEPH BUCKLEY
Michael Joseph Buckley, D.D.S., was
born at Chicago, Illinois, May 26, 1877,
a son of Patrick and Mary (Ready) Buckley.
He was educated in the Chicago public
schools, and at Northwestern University
Dental School, where he was graduated with
his degree in 1908.
Dr. Buckley was active in private practice
in Chicago since July, 1908. His first office
was at Twenty-first ,Street and Crawford
Avenue. Later he moved to Jackson Boule-
vard and Crawford Avenue. For many years
he also had downtown offices in the Michigan
Boulevard Building. More recently he
moved to the Pittsfield Building.
With the passing of the years Dr. Buck-
ley's large practice became devoted, almost
exclusively, to his remarkably fine work in
orthodontia.
He was also special demonstrator in
Orthodontia at Northwestern University
Dental School. He was a member of the
Chicago Dental Society, the Orthodontists'
Society, the Odontographic Society of Chi-
cago, and was formerly president of the West
Suburban Dental Society. He also belonged
to the Masons, the Edgewood Valley Country
Club and to the Oak Park Club.
Dr. Buckley was married at Creston, Iowa,
September 27, 1911, to Miss Christine
Kebrdle, a daughter of Charles and Mary
Kebrdle. Dr. and Mrs. Buckley have twin
sons, Michael J. Buckley, Jr., and Charles K.
Buckley. The family home is in Oak Park,
Illinois.
The death of Dr. Michael J. Buckley came
in his sixty-fifth year'on July 30, 1941. For
a number of years he was acknowledged to
be one of the best orthodontists in Chicago.
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MICHAEL JOSEPH BUCKLEY
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BASSETT CADWALLADER
The late Bassett Cadwallader of La
Grange, Illinois, was born in Maysville,
Kentucky, June 13, 1855, a son of John and
Amelia (Bassett) Cadwallader. His father
was a pioneer photographer in Ohio. His
mother was an early leader in women's activi-
ties and was a friend of Susan B. Anthony.
Bassett Cadwallader attended public
schools, and when he was nineteen years
old, went to work as librarian at Evansville,
Indiana. While he was there he originated
and developed a decimal system for the cata-
loging of library volumes which subsequently
developed a large following and was recog-
nized by the Library of Congress.
The next change in his work was to join his
uncle, Dallas Cadwallader. Together they
became well known photographers in Mari-
etta, Ohio.
Then he lived for a time in Parkersburg,
West Virginia, maintaining a photograph
studio there, in addition to his studio across
the river in Marietta. In later years, after
living for a time in Indianapolis, he came to
Chicago, Illinois, and became engaged in the
advertising business.
It was in 1889 that he established his home
at LaGrange, Illinois. There he began the
long series of electrical experiments and de-
velopments that were to fill his active, useful
life for many years thereafter. It is interest-
ing to record that he wired the first house
in LaGrange that used electricity. It was in
LaGrange that he began his experiments with
the writing telegraph which resulted in his
development of the telautograph. He holds
the original patents on the telautograph.
Back in 1891 he started to design and cre-
ate a new type of electric motor. He devoted
practically all of the rest of his life to its
development. He maintained a fine electrical
laboratory of his own in Boston, Massachu-
setts, for a number of years. He became
one of the leading men in his field of investi-
gation in the United States.
Mr. Cadwallader was married April 27,
1881, at Fremont, Ohio, to Miss Gertrude
Victoria Moody, a daughter of Augustus and
Antoinette (Rockwell) Moody. Their chil-
dren are Francis and Florence Cadwallader.
The death of Bassett Cadwallader occurred
February 7, 1938. He and his family had
been residents of LaGrange, Illinois, for
nearly fifty years. Mr. Cadwallader earned a
place as an international authority on the
study and application of magnetism and in
electrical research.
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JOHN CHRIMES
JOHN Chrimes was born in Warrington,
England, April 22, 1823, a son of John
and Ann (Johnson) Chrimes.
The Chrimes family came to England from
Holland with William, Prince of Orange.
The coat of arms of the family of Chrimes
is of German origin and dates back to 1603.
The name was formerly spelt Ghrimes. The
family settled in Warrington, England, half-
way between Liverpool and Manchester.
Some of the family are still living in that
locality.
John Chrimes was left an orphan in early
life, and his cousin, a London lawyer, took
him in charge. He went to Paris, France, to
learn his trade and became a civil and military
tailor. He came to the United States in a
sailing vessel, which took three months to
cross the ocean, and landed at New Orleans.
About 1850 he settled in New Orleans, and
then, for a time, located in Rochester, New
York. In the spring of 1856 he came to Chi-
cago and established his home and his busi-
ness connections here.
For several years he worked for A. D.
Titsworth, and he then went into business for
himself under the name of Waterbury &
Chrimes, civil and military tailors. Their first
location was at 146 Dearborn Street, but this
property was destroyed at the time of the
Chicago fire. Waterbury & Chrimes next
opened their store at Twenty-second Street
near Wabash Avenue, but within a short time
moved to 102 Madison Street.
In 1872 Mr. Chrimes purchased the home,
then referred to as "Widow Clark's house,"
now located at 4526 Wabash Avenue. This
house was built about 1836. Mrs. W. H.
Walter, daughter of Mr. Chrimes, still lives
in this house, which is probably the earliest
residence still standing in Chicago.
John Chrimes was married in the fall of
1853 to Lydia Claghorn Richardson. Seven
children were born to them: David P.
Chrimes (deceased) ; Lydia Chrimes; George
H. Chrimes; Mary R. Chrimes; William P.
Chrimes; John Chrimes, and Robert L.
Chrimes.
Mr. Chrimes was an Episcopalian, and, in
later years, a Unitarian. He belonged to the
Masonic order and was a charter member
of Home Lodge.
John Chrimes passed away April 16, 1876.
He is still remembered as an outstanding
pioneer tailor in Chicago and as a man of
strong purpose, high ideals and fine character.
At the present time all of John Chrimes'
family have passed on except one daughter,
Mary R. Walter. There are nine grand-
children, (six are children of Mrs. Walter,
and three of the late Robert L. Chrimes),
and twelve great grandchildren.
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IIBRARV
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LYDIA CH RIMES WALTER
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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HOMER HUNT COOPER
omer Hunt Cooper was born at Chi
cago, Illinois, September 18, 1887
His parents were Percy Cooper and Jane
Elizabeth (Wilson) Cooper, who were farm-
ers in Champaign County, Illinois.
Homer Cooper went to school in Shelby-
ville, and then enrolled at the University of
Illinois. He had to leave the University
after two years, however, because of the
death of his father in 1906. Then he got a
job as a newspaper reporter in Mattoon,
Illinois.
He left there after six years to enter the
Law School of Northwestern University. He
received his degree of LL.B. there in 1914.
His record at Northwestern was a brilliant
one.
He was admitted to practice at the Illinois
Bar in October 1914, and he started his
practice as a clerk in the law offices of Ham-
lin and Topliff. Five years later he was made
a member of the firm of Hamlin, Topliff and
Cooper, and he so continued until 1930. That
year he became a member of the firm of
Scott, McLeish and Falk.
Mr. Cooper came to be recognized as
possessing one of the finest legal minds in
Chicago. His work as a lawyer, right up to the
time of his early death, was of remark-
able excellence and effectiveness.
He was president of the Law Club at the
time of his death. He had also been presi-
dent of the University Club, the Legal Club,
and was a member of the Chicago Club,
Mid-Day Club, and Chicago Literary
Club, and of other organizations, including
the American, Illinois State, and Chicago Bar
Associations.
He was one of the best known alumni of
the University of Illinois. He had great
capacity for enjoyment, joined with rare
dramatic ability, as was evidenced in the
well-remembered plays he wrote for the Law
Club, the University Club, and for the
annual productions of the Chicago Bar
Association.
He was a Trustee of Armour Institute of
Technology, and was on the advisory com-
mittee for the Civic Federation, Bureau of
Public Efficiency.
During the first World War he was a
Captain of Infantry. He was also detailed to
the Provost Marshal's department and had
supervision of Selective Service work in
northeastern Illinois.
Mr. Cooper was married in 1922 to Miss
Myrtle Falcon. Their home is in Evanston,
Illinois.
Homer Hunt Cooper died January 28,
1939. He was one of the most highly re-
garded men of his profession in Chicago.
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FRANK SIMPSON CUNNINGHAM
T?rank Simpson Cunningham was born
-*- at Bourbon, Indiana, April 16, 1866, a
son of Oliver Weaver Cunningham and
Bethia Ann (Simpson) Cunningham. The
father will be remembered as an early day
druggist in Goshen, Indiana. He lived to
be eighty-one years old and his wife lived to
be eighty-seven.
Frank S. Cunningham graduated from
High School in Goshen. Then he came to
Chicago, Illinois, to find a job and to start
working out a career. How remarkably he
succeeded is shown in the following brief
review. He secured a position as stenog-
rapher for Mr. Edward B. Butler, one of
the founders of the world-known business of
Butler Brothers. As the years passed Mr.
Cunningham's personal services proved to be
of great and increasing value to the firm. He
earned advancement, step by step. He was
made president of Butler Brothers in 1918
and he filled that very important office until
he was made chairman of the Board of Di-
rectors in 1939.
Mr. Cunningham was married September
14, 1893, in Chicago, to Miss Lucy Eleanor
Baty, a daughter of Thomas and Sarah Baty.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham have one son, the
late Captain Oliver Baty Cunningham, who
was killed while serving overseas in the
Fifteenth Field Artillery of the United States
Army during the first World War. Subse-
quently the Distinguished Service Cross was
conferred in recognition of extraordinary
heroism.
In memory of his son, Mr. Cunningham
established the Oliver Baty Cunningham
Memorial scholarship at Evanston High
School. He also gave a church community
house in Evanston and a carillon to the Vil-
lage of Theaucourt, France.
The family home has been in Evanston
for many years. Mr. Cunningham was a
liberal contributor to St. Mark's Episcopal
Church.
He was a life trustee of Northwestern
University; a founder and president of the
Evanston Cradle Society; and was a valued
member of the Chicago Club, Union League
Club of Chicago, the Commercial Club, Glen
View Club, the University Club of Evanston,
the Chicago Historical Society, and the
Evanston Historical Society.
Frank S. Cunningham died, in his seventy-
sixth year, December 1, 1941. He was won-
derfully kind, tolerant, charitable, and
understanding, and his was a remarkably use-
ful and well-rounded life. He is one of the
most valued men in the history of Chicago's
development.
16
FRANK SIMPSON CUNNINGHAM
tlBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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OLIVER BATY CUNNINGHAM
(.IBHARY
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MRS. HUGO DALMAR
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
UR6ANA
HUGO DALMAR
HUGO DALMAR
HUGO Dalmar was born in New York
City, New York, May 12, 1873, a son
of Louis and Hannah (Benedict) Dalmar.
He was educated in public schools in Mon-
treal, Canada, and was self-supporting from
the age of thirteen.
From 1880, Mr. Dalmar was connected
with the insurance business. It was in 1890
that he was made special agent in Cook
County, Illinois, for the Dwelling House
Insurance Company of Boston.
In 1893 he was one of the founders of the
firm of Napier and Dalmar. That business
continued until Mr. Dalmar founded his own
firm, H. Dalmar and Company, on October
1, 1900. That business was remarkable and
deservedly successful.
He was a member of Chicago Underwrit-
ers Association, Chicago Real Estate Board,
the Art Institute of Chicago (life member),
the Chicago Historical Society, the Violinists
Guild of Chicago, the Henry Booth House
(life member), and he was a Guarantor of
the Chicago Civic Opera Company.
He also belonged to the Chicago Athletic
Association, Edgewater Golf Club, Bob o'
Link, the Evanston Country Club, and the
Shawnee Country Club.
Mr. Dalmar was an exceptionally talented
violinist. He possessed a true appreciation of
everything lovely and fine.
Hugo Dalmar died March 18, 1935. He
is survived by his wife, Alma M., his daugh-
ter, Jeanette, and by his son, Hugo Dalmar,
Jr. Mrs. Dalmar is a daughter of Abraham
and Anna (Swanstrom) Pedersen.
Mr. Dalmar was one of the most highly
regarded insurance men in this part of the
United States. His business is being contin-
ued by his wife and son.
In addition to being president of H. Dal-
mar and Company, Mrs. Dalmar is a charter
member, and has twice been president, of the
Insurance Distaff Executive Association. We
give here a brief resume of her many other
activities and interests, which also include a
number of charities and philanthropies: She
is a life member of the Art Institute of Chi-
cago, the Field Museum of Natural History,
the Chicago Historical Society, and of the
Governing Board of the National College of
Education, and is former president of their
Parent-Teachers Council. She is very help-
fully interested in the Civic Music Associa-
tion, in Hull House, and in the Mary Bar-
telme Club, which she serves as a member
of the Executive Board, and former presi-
dent of the Evanston Auxiliary. She is an
honorary member of the Women's Univer-
sity Club of Chicago, and is honorary pa-
troness of Mu Phi Epsilon, Iota Alpha
Chapter. She is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Chicago Women's Orches-
tral Association, and has been treasurer and
a director of the Illinois Opera Guild since
its founding. She is also a valued member
of the Cordon Club, Arts Club, the Drama
League of Chicago, Friends of Drama, and
of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
During the period of the second World War,
Mrs. Dalmar did much radio broadcasting
to further the sale of War bonds and stamps.
As the foregoing review attests, Mrs. Dal-
mar is one of Chicago's most distinguished
women.
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WILLIAM ANGUS DOUGLASS
The late William A. Douglass was born
in New York City August 16, 1852, a
son of Benjaman and Elizabeth (Dun) Doug-
lass.
He was graduated from Lafayette College
at Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1872. Then he
studied for a year at Union Theological
Seminary.
Soon thereafter, however, he came west to
Chicago, with his father, to become assistant
manager of the Chicago office of R. G. Dun
and Company. His work was of such excel-
lence that he was soon made manager. He
continued to represent R. G. Dun and Com-
pany until 1920, in which year he retired.
Upon his arrival in Chicago he united with
the Fourth Presbyterian Church. He became
a trustee and a member of the Session.
In 1891 he moved to Oak Park, Illinois.
It is a very interesting and significant fact
to record that, in 1883, when he was thirty-
one years old, he was elected the first secre-
tary of the board of managers of the then
new Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. He
was re-elected as secretary of that board at
each successive election, as long as he lived,
an unbroken period of fifty years.
Mr. Douglass' connection with the Presby-
terian Hospital has been a great blessing to
that institution.
He was also one of the oldest and most
valued members of the Union League Club
of Chicago.
In 1893 he built the lovely home in Oak
Park, Illinois, which he and his family have
occupied ever since. At about that time he
joined the First Presbyterian Church of Oak
Park. For nearly forty-five years he served
that church as a trustee or elder. Recently he
was made honorary elder, for life.
He was a close friend of and advisor to
each new minister. His own quiet and strong
devotion to his faith was a wonderfully fine
influence in the church.
Throughout all the years he lived in Oak
Park he was always to be depended upon to
do more than his full share in sustaining and
developing all movements for good and for
progress.
He was one of the original group of men
who, in 1902, organized and installed the
first Oak Park Y.M.C.A. For seven years
Mr. Douglass served as president of the
board of directors of that institution. He
also served as president of the Illinois
Y.M.C.A. He was known and greatly appre-
ciated in Y.M.C.A. work, here and abroad.
In 1889 Mr. Douglass was married to
Miss Eliza Kingman of Auburndale, Massa-
chusetts. Their children are Elizabeth (Mrs.
Clyde E. Shorey) ; Kingman Douglass; Caro
Anderson Douglass who died in 1893; and
William A. Douglass, Jr., who died in 1909.
The mother died before any of her children
were grown. In 1913 Mr. Douglass married
Mrs. Lillian Pollock McNutt. Their children
are Donald McNutt Douglass and Benjamin
Douglass. There are eight grandchildren.
The family home is at 317 North Kenilworth
Avenue in Oak Park.
The death of William A. Douglass oc-
curred at Dunedin, Florida, in February
1935. He was a fine, Christian man; one
whose nobility of character and kindliness of
heart were a constant source of encourage-
ment and inspiration.
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UN.VERSITr Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
KELLOGG FAIRBANK
IT^ellogg Fairbank was born in Chicago,
**■ Illinois, February 18, 1869; a son of
Nathaniel K. and Helen L. (Graham) Fair-
bank, extended mention of whom is made in
an earlier volume of this history.
As a boy, Kellogg Fairbank attended Har-
vard School in Chicago, and then went to
Harvard University and to Harvard Law
School. He received the degree of Bachelor
of Arts in 1890, and the degree of Bachelor
of Laws in 1893. He was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 1893; and he continued to
practice here throughout the rest of his life.
Mr. Fairbank was married May 29, 1900
in Chicago to Miss Janet Ayer, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Ayer. There is
a detailed biography of Mr. Ayer in an
earlier volume of this publication. Mr. and
Mrs. Fairbank have two sons and one
daughter; Kellogg Fairbank, Jr., Benjamin
Ayer Fairbank, and Janet Fairbank. The
family home is on the near north side in
Chicago.
Mr. Fairbank was a director of the Ameri-
can Ship Building Company and, during the
first World War, managed the South Chi-
cago plant, where ships ordered by the gov-
ernment were built.
For many years he was one of the principal
forces behind the excellent work accom-
plished by the Municipal Voters League in
Chicago.
Kellogg Fairbank died February 18, 1939.
Throughout many years his fine influence has
been felt in the development of Chicago.
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FRANKLIN FAIRMAN
Franklin Fairman was born at New-
town, Connecticut, June 22, 1833, a son
of Charles and Eliza J. (Morehouse) Fair-
man, natives of Newtown, Connecticut. The
Fairman family was prominent at Newtown,
and are descended from pioneers of the place.
The earliest records of the family, now avail-
able, show John Fairman as the first of the
family to come to America. He settled in
Enfield, Connecticut, in the latter part of the
seventeenth century. His grandson estab-
lished a home in Newtown, Connecticut, and
was a prominent citizen there from 1750 to
1775. He was the great, great grandfather
of Franklin Fairman. Thomas Morehouse,
the maternal ancestor, located in Wethers-
field, Connecticut, as early as 1640. Later
he removed to Stamford, and was one of the
original twenty-nine settlers of that town who
purchased the site from the New Haven Col-
ony, who had previously secured it from the
Indians for one hundred bushels of corn.
Franklin Fairman attended the public
schools of Newtown and an academy at the
same place. For a short time thereafter he
taught school, but, when only sixteen years
old, went into the employ of his uncle, a
merchant of New Haven, Connecticut, two
years later going to New York City, where
he was employed in the printing office of The
Independent.
In 1855 he sought larger opportunities at
Chicago. He entered the employ of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad as clerk, two years
after that road was established. In 1857 he
was placed in its general offices, and after
a year of service was made assistant general
freight agent, having entire charge of the
accounts. From January, 1874, until Novem-
ber, 1900, he was chief freight clerk and
auditor of the freight account receipts. From
the latter date until June, 1903, he was audi-
tor, having been continuously in charge of
the freight accounts from January, 1858,
until November, 1900.
His religious faith induced him in his youth
to connect himself with the Congregational
Church, but on coming to Chicago he became
identified with Christ Reformed Episcopal
Church, and later with St. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Kenwood.
The Kenwood Club furnished him social
diversion, and he was among its earliest
members.
He was interested in the Art Institute and
very fond of music.
As his success came from his own efforts,
he assisted many young men to gain a foot-
hold, and was interested in their later careers.
In politics he was a staunch Republican.
November 30, 1871, Mr. Fairman mar-
ried Mary J. Sherman of Newtown, Conn.,
daughter of Jotham and Mary Ann (Bost-
wick) Sherman. They became the parents
of three children: Matilda Louise, Frank
Sherman (died 1899), and Marian.
On account of his prominent connection
with the National Union, it will be interesting
to note the following record of his connection
with that order. He was admitted February
28, 1884, to Lincoln Council, No. 68; be-
came its first president, and later served as
speaker for twenty-five years ; was elected
senator for Illinois in 1887; vice president,
June 24, 1887; trustee, June 21, 1889, and
June 20, 1890; vice president, June 24, 1892;
member of committee on appeals and griev-
ances, July 21, 1893; president and trustee,
July 20, 1894; president and trustee, July 19,
1895; sitting ex-president, 1896 and 1897;
life member of the senate and ex-president,
1897; trustee, July 23, 1904, and re-elected
trustee at each succeeding session of the
senate from 1906 until his death, December
26, 1914.
In 1888, under the auspices of Lincoln
Council, he conceived the idea of and inaugu-
rated the public annual commemoration of
Lincoln's birthday, and, although some diffi-
culties had to be overcome in the beginning,
the movement developed into a notable suc-
cess, so that now the day is quite generally
observed throughout the country, and in Illi-
nois has become a legal holiday.
When a blameless life comes to an end,
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it is but natural that those associated with benefit to others. Happy indeed must a
its action should feel sorrow at the termina- family be to possess a record of one of their
tion of a career so useful and uplifting. Yet loved ones like that left by the late Franklin
sometimes the full force of a man's influence Fairman, against whom none can rightly
cannot come into play until he is removed breathe a word of censure. For years he
from the scenes of his operations. The deeds was one of the forceful figures in railroad
he has executed then appear, and the stand circles centering at Chicago, and a most effec-
he has taken on moral questions results in tive worker in the National Union.
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JOSEPH GUILFORD FALCON
Captain Joseph G. Falcon was born at
Cohasset, Massachusetts, October 15,
1851, a son of Peter Eliaz Falcon and Emily
(Root) Falcon. His father was well known
in the submarine contracting and engineering
business in Massachusetts.
When Joseph Falcon was still a boy the
family moved to Chicago, Illinois. There his
young manhood was lived, and there he mar-
ried Miss Frances Hinks. Soon thereafter
he and his wife established their own home
in Evanston, Illinois.
Joseph Falcon succeeded his father in
business and earned a distinguished place in
underwater construction work throughout the
United States. He did a great deal of vital
underwater development work, not only in
Illinois, but also along the New England
Coast and in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Ken-
tucky, Michigan, Iowa and elsewhere. He
developed and patented many items of ma-
chinery and equipment used today in his field.
When he retired from active business some
years ago, his business was carried on by his
son Guilford W. Falcon. Following his re-
tirement, Captain Falcon went to Tarpon
Springs, Florida to live.
Captain Falcon lived a full and adventur-
ous life. He retained his vigor and keenness
as long as he lived. He died within a few
days of his eighty-fifth birthday, on October
3, 1936. His is one of the most interesting
personal records in the earlier history of
Chicago.
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BERNARD FANTUS
T^\r. Bernard Fantus was born in Buda-
■*-^ pest, Hungary, September 1, 1874. Be-
fore coming to the United States, when he
was about fifteen years of age, he had laid
the foundation for his education in Vienna.
In 1899 he graduated from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago, Illinois.
From 1902 to 1913 he was in charge of the
Medical Dispensary at that college. In 1906
he went abroad for advance studies in Stras-
bourg. In 1909 he studied in Berlin. The
University of Michigan gave him the degree
of Master of Science in 1915.
He served as professor of Pharmacology
and Therapeutics at the University of Illinois
College of Medicine from 1903 to 1924. He
was professor of Physiology from 1913 to
1917 at the College of Pharmacy of the Uni-
versity of Illinois. That year he was made
associate professor of Medicine at Rush
Medical College. In 1932 he returned to the
faculty of his alma mater and he was profes-
sor there throughout the rest of his life.
His life long interest was therapeutics. He
came to be recognized as a great point of
contact between the physician and druggist.
Following his death many druggists seemed
to feel that "Pharmacy had lost its best friend
in the Medical Profession."
He was a member of the Committee on
Revisions of the United States Pharmaco-
poeia National Formula and Recipe Book
for many years. He was always active and
interested in the American Pharmaceutical
Association.
He is author of a very valuable collection
of books and articles on prescription writing,
candy medication, useful cathartics, and on
the general technic of medication. He con-
tributed a great deal to "The Therapy of the
Cook County Hospital" published in the
Journal of the American Medical Associa-
tion.
He was largely to be thanked for the de-
velopment of the Solutions Laboratory of
Cook County Hospital where he was director
of Therapeutics.
His studies on reactions following intra-
venous administration of fluids were a valued
contribution. For nearly twenty-five years
he was editor of the "Year Book of General
Therapeutics." He was also editor of
"Merck's Manual" and of the "Digest of
Therapeutics."
It was Dr. Fantus who first developed the
thought of transforming the area between
Cook County Hospital, Presbyterian Hos-
pital, Rush Medical College, and the Student
Y.M.C.A. into a park for convalescents.
It was, primarily, Dr. Fantus who estab-
lished the "Blood Bank" at Cook County
Hospital, on March 18, 1937. This practice
has spread to similar institutions throughout
the nation and is of inestimable value where
emergencies are constantly at hand.
He was a member of Phi Rho Sigma,
Alpha Omega Alpha, Chicago Society of In-
ternal Medicine, American Medical Associa-
tion, the American Pharmaceutical Society
and of other organizations, and an honorary
member of the American Therapeutic Society.
Dr. Fantus died April 14, 1940. He was
one of the truly great teachers of medical
science.
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ALBERT GEORGE FARR
Albert G. Farr was born at Brandon,
Vermont, December 3, 1851, a son of
Flavius Josephus and Chastina Eliza Buck
(Parkhurst) Farr. His parents were both
natives of Vermont. The family are strictly
of English stock, the first representative in
America having come to the Massachusetts
Bay Colony in 1629.
Albert G. Farr was a student in the semi-
nary at Brandon during 1861-67, and in 1870
was graduated first in his class, from the
Columbus (Ohio) High School. He had
hoped to attend a technical school, but owing
to his father's illness his plans were neces-
sarily changed and he joined the teaching staff
of the Columbus High School and thus con-
tinued for nine years, at which time he was
made principal of that institution, serving two
years. In 1881 Mr. Farr came to Chicago
and became a clerk in the law firm of Willard
& Driggs, the junior member being a friend
of the Farr family. At that time the late
Mr. N. W. Harris, who subsequently be-
came the head of the Harris Trust & Sav-
ings Bank of Chicago, had desk room with
the law firm, and a warm friendship grew
between Mr. Farr and Mr. Harris. In
1882 Mr. Farr was admitted to the bar as
a general attorney, and continued to practice
as such for some years, but gradually aban-
doned practice owing to his increasing duties
pertaining to the Harris interests with which
he became identified in 1891, when he was
made a member of the firm of N. W. Harris
& Co., bankers of Chicago, New York and
Boston. On its incorporation in 1907 he was
made a director and vice-president of the
Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago. At
the time of his death, December 22, 1913, he
was Chairman of the Board of Directors of
this institution. He was a director and a
member of the executive committee of the
Michigan State Telephone Company; a di-
rector of the Terre Haute (Indiana) Water
Works Company, and a trustee of Ripon Col-
lege, Ripon, Wisconsin, of which institution
he was also treasurer from 1908-10. Mr.
Farr was an ardent advocate of collegiate
training and one of his favorite charities was
aiding young people to secure the advantage
of a college education. The Alice Parkhurst
Farr Alcove, in the Public Library of Ripon,
was given and constantly added to by Mr.
Farr, and he was also much interested in
starting a department for the circulation of
good sheet music. He was a trustee and sup-
porter of the Brandon Free Public Library as
well. Stephen A. Douglas was also a native
of Brandon, and it seemed very fitting that
some memorial to his memory should be
erected there. In 1913 a marble monument
with two bronze tablets was given by Mr.
Farr and set up by the town authorities in
front of the house in which Douglas was born
a hundred years before.
Mr. Farr married (first) Miss Alice Park-
hurst of Berlin, Wisconsin, on July 23, 1873.
She died in 1888, leaving one daughter, Shir-
ley Farr. On April 30, 1890, Mr. Farr was
married (second) to Miss Lottie Snow of
Chicago, who died in 1911. Mr. Farr at-
tended the services of Christ Reformed Epis-
copal Church and served on the board of
trustees of the Bishop Cheney Memorial
Fund. In politics he was an Independent Re-
publican. For some years he was a member
of the Union League, the Quadrangle, the
Chicago Literary and the South Shore Coun-
try clubs, all of Chicago, and the Green
Mountain Club of his native state, in which
last he took particular interest. The summer
residence of the family was at Brandon, Ver-
mont, for Mr. Farr never lost his affection
for his native town and its people.
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JOHN ADRIAN GARCIA
John Adrian Garcia was born at St.
Louis, Missouri, August 26, 1875, a son
of Dr. Charles Garcia and Margaret Mary
(Connallen) Garcia. His father was head of
St. Mary's Infirmary at St. Louis.
John A. Garcia was graduated from St.
Louis University at St. Louis at the age of
nineteen; then, in 1900, he received his de-
gree of Bachelor of Science in Mining Engi-
neering from the School of Mines, University
of Missouri. He received the degree of
Master of Engineering in 1903 and of
Doctor of Engineering in 1928.
He began his professional career, in rail-
road construction and location, in Missouri,
Arkansas, Arizona and Oklahoma in 1900.
From that time on his work can be briefly
summarized as follows : He was active in
the construction, development and operation
of coal mines in the United States, Mexico
and Canada from 1904 to 1908. That year
he was made chief engineer of the Dering
Coal Company. Subsequently he became gen-
eral superintendent; then he was elected vice-
president and general manager of the Dering
Coal Company and of the Brazil Block Coal
Company.
In 1911 he became president of the Allen
and Garcia Company. This company is inter-
nationally recognized as specialists in the min-
ing of coal, rock salt and fluor spar. Mr.
Garcia continued at the head of this distin-
guished firm of consulting engineers until the
close of his life.
Mr. Garcia was married September 6,
1902 to Miss Virginia Mae Seay of Rolla,
Missouri. She is a niece of Governor Seay
of Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Garcia have a
son and a daughter, John Adrian Garcia, Jr.
and Virginia Garcia McCarthy.
Mr. Garcia was a member of the Amer-
ican Institute of Mining Engineers, the Illi-
nois Mining Institute, the Western Society
of Engineers, the Engineers' Club and the
University Club.
He was president of the Western Society
of Engineers in 1928—29. He was also a mem-
ber of the Tau Beta Pi honorary fraternity.
The death of John A. Garcia came, just
before he reached his sixty-fourth birthday,
on August 11, 1939. He was greatly enjoyed
and appreciated by everyone who knew him
well. He was one of the ablest mining engi-
neers in America.
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ERICH GERSTENBERG
T^rich Gerstenberg was born at Chi-
-*-' cago, Illinois, November 29, 1858.
As a young man, his father, Charles
(Carl) Gerstenberg, left Hildesheim, Ger-
many, where his family was well established
in a publishing business, lived a while in
London and Paris and finally came to Amer-
ica. One of the early Fergus Directories of
Chicago carries an advertisement of his first
business venture.
He returned to Hildesheim for Hermine,
daughter of Chief Justice Wilhelm Helm-
boldt, and came back with his bride to
Chicago.
In a short while he became one of the
well-known grain and produce merchants and
his firm, C. Gerstenberg and Co., was among
the first listed on the Chicago Board of
Trade. His residence was on North Dear-
born Street, a block north of the old His-
torical Society building, and he rebuilt at the
same location after the Chicago fire (now
670 North Dearborn Avenue).
The fire shortened the academic education
of his oldest son, Erich, who went to Wied-
inger Collegiate School and Dyrenforth's
Business College, and thrust him into his
father's business. Erich was not yet of age
when his father died in 1879, but he carried
on the business, taking in as partner, young
William Kroeschell.
As senior member of the firm, as guardian
of his younger brother, Adolph, and of his
two sisters, Emma and Bertha, Erich sought
to hide his youth by a formality of manner,
a quiet dignity, and very becoming side-
burns which throughout the years gained for
him the compliment of being "a gentleman
of the old school."
Young people never tired of hearing his
reminiscences of pioneer Chicago. One epi-
sode, like a painted canvas of a little boy,
recalls the flavor of those prairie days. He
said: "I remember being taken out for a
walk in a diagonal direction from our home
on Dearborn Avenue to the Chicago Avenue
Bridge, across prairie in summer time, upon
planks, put there for pedestrians, as the
prairies were flooded in June. I remember
being clad in white linens and bending my
body sideways to avoid being bitten by either
ducks or geese (white in color). They would
swim along by my side."
In 1899 Erich and Adolph became part-
ners in Gerstenberg and Co. and their asso-
ciation was one of fine integrity, carrying
through the years their traditional inherit-
ance. Erich retired in 1927. Adolph con-
tinued with his sons, Carl and Raymond.
Carl died in 1935, Adolph in 1941. Ray-
mond, in 1942, continues the Gerstenberg
name, the oldest to be continuously associated
with the Chicago Board of Trade.
Erich Gerstenberg married Miss Julia
Wieschendorff of Chicago, and their one
child is Alice Gerstenberg, well-known play-
wright.
Mrs. Erich Gerstenberg will be remem-
bered as one of the most charming, able,
and beautiful women in the earlier social,
civic, and cultural life of Chicago. Her death
occurred in 1938.
Erich Gerstenberg died November 3, 1940,
in his eighty-second year, one of Chicago's
loyal sons, born there, living a lifetime there,
giving his best cooperation to a young city's
business, civic and cultural demands, and win-
ning respect everywhere for his integrity and
kindness.
His residence for the greater part of his
life was the house he had built at 539 Dem-
ing Place in the Lakeview District. (Georgian
Court, -a large apartment house stands there
now.) His summer home was at Elkhart
Lake, Wisconsin.
He died in his apartment, 1120 Lake
Shore Drive, overlooking Lake Michigan.
He never grew tired of looking at the lake.
In spite of travels in Europe and in America,
he remained ever content with Chicago, the
pioneer city which had needed men of worth
like him in its formative years.
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CHARLES WILLIAM GINDELE
Charles William Gindele was born in
Schweinfurth, Bavaria, Germany, April
19, 1847, a son of John George Gindele and
Louisa (Hirscheimer) Gindele, who came to
the United States in 1850, and located at
Chicago in September, 1852.
His early educational opportunities were
those afforded by the public schools of Chi-
cago, but, before completing his education,
although only a boy in his 'teens, he answered
the call of President Lincoln for troops and
tendered his services in the Civil War. He
enlisted as a private in Company G, Eighth
Illinois Cavalry, and was later promoted to
the rank of corporal, being honorably dis-
charged as such in June, 1865.
Following the war he took a business
course in the Bryant & Stratton Commercial
School, and in the spring of 1866 became
street numbering clerk on the Board of Public
Works. Two years later, in the spring of
1868, he was taken into his father's firm,
known as J. G. Gindele & Sons, established
in 1857, which controlled a large building
and contracting business and from which the
corporation of the Charles W. Gindele Com-
pany, engineers and general contractors, was
later evolved. For years Mr. Gindele exe-
cuted the contracts for many of the most
important building and construction works
of the city of Chicago, including that of the
courthouse, the custom house and post office,
the construction of the battleship "Illinois"
at the Columbian Exposition, the Calumet
Club and other club houses, together with
equally important buildings all over the coun-
try. Mr. Gindele also devoted much attention
to railroad construction.
Mr. Gindele was married March 26, 1880,
in Chicago, to Miss Ida Lucy Elliott Ash.
One son was born to them, John George Gin-
dele, who died in infancy. The mother passed
away October 16, 1897.
Mr. Gindele was married July 29, 1908,
to Miss Margretha Carline Schneble, and
to this marriage three children were born:
Charles William Gindele, Jr. (deceased),
Margretha Ida Gindele, and Carl W.
Gindele.
Mr. Gindele's prominence and worth to his
city may, in a measure, be judged by the
numerous representative organizations with
which he was officially or otherwise con-
nected, and by the responsible positions to
which he was elected and re-elected. He be-
longed to the Builders' and Traders' Ex-
change, which he served as president in 1893
and again in 1899; also to the Mason's and
Builders' Association, which he served as
president for two years. He served in the
office of president of the Building Construc-
tion Employers' Association of Chicago, hav-
ing been first elected in July, 1911, at the
time of its organization, and three times
thereafter re-elected, in 1912, 1913 and
1914.
In this capacity, and as president of the
executive board of the Building Contractors'
Employers' Association, he being the first
honorary member to be elected to that post,
he was responsible, perhaps more than any
other, for bringing about peace and harmony
to the formerly harassed Chicago building in-
dustry. It was largely through his exercise
of tact, his wise discrimination, unimpeach-
able integrity, and exalted sense of justice,
that desired results were brought about.
By no means do the associations above re-
ferred to include all of the intimate connec-
tions which Mr. Gindele had with important
gatherings and organizations in the industrial
world, but they indicate his great usefulness
and his high standing.
He was a member of the Builder's Club
of which he was president in 1901, and of the
Hamilton Club, the Press Club, and the South
Shore Country Club.
Charles William Gindele passed away De-
cember 9, 1918. In every problem of life
presented to him, he showed resourcefulness
and dignified capability and stood as one of
the men of mark of Chicago.
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RICHARD FREDERICK GLOEDE
Richard Frederick Gloede, horticultur-
ist, was born at Pommern, Germany,
January 5, 1871, a son of William H.
Gloede. The father was government forester
for King William and had charge of a do-
maine of thousands of acres.
Richard F. Gloede came to the United
States, with his parents, in 1883. The family
first located at Cleveland, Ohio, and then,
moved to Chicago, Illinois, about 1887.
Richard F. Gloede opened a flower shop
in Chicago, and he also grew flowers of
exceptional rarity and beauty for various
flower shows in his greenhouses in Chicago
and in Evanston. He possessed an inherited
natural ability in the growing of flowers,
plants, shrubs and trees, and he had excep-
tionally fine training. In the course of time
he became nationally recognized as one of
the ablest men of his profession in the
Nation.
Richard F. Gloede was married May 16,
1893, in Chicago, to Miss Ida W. Pressler, a
daughter of David Christopher Pressler and
Maria (Hunstock) Pressler. Her father
was a pioneer resident of Chicago, having
come from Germany in 1837 at the age of
four. He was a well known business man
here, and a building contractor and ship
builder. He went through the Chicago fire.
It is interesting to record that all the money
and valuable papers belonging to the First
National Bank were stored at his home for
safe keeping throughout the fire. In 1860
he operated the shipyard of Pressler and
Duncan at San Francisco, building and re-
pairing ships. Mr. and Mrs. Pressler had a
family of five sons and five daughters.
David C. Pressler died, in his sixty-eighth
year, in 1899. Mrs. Pressler lived to be
seventy-three.
Mr. and Mrs. Gloede have three sons:
Raymond W. F. ; Randolph C. (who died
October 19, 1926) ; and Robert E. S. Gloede.
There are four grandchildren and one great
granddaughter. The family home is at
Evanston, Illinois.
It was in 1899 that Mr. and Mrs. Gloede
moved to Evanston and established their
home and their greenhouses. Throughout all
of their years together they worked and
planned, side by side, and in very close com-
panionship. She had always been his inspira-
tion and encouragement. Together they
earned a place among Illinois' best known
floriculturists and horticulturists, and, to-
gether, they established their fine reputation
in landscape gardening and in the hybridizing
of rare delphiniums. Together they educated
their three sons in their profession.
They moved to their present location in
1907 and there they created the "Gloede
Hidden Gardens" which is a most interesting
place. In the gardens is the Gloede family
home nestling among rare beautiful trees and
plantings, and filled with historical wonders
of many lands. In the gardens, among their
many treasures, rests the remains of the fa-
mous Pottawatomie Tree, great forest giant
some six hundred years old, also the famous
Treaty Tree, of Chicago history. The gar-
dens are known throughout the United States
and abroad, and are visited by hundreds of
people each year, all of whom are most gra-
ciously received.
It is also interesting to record that,
together, Mr. and Mrs. Gloede, in a search
that has covered many years, located, in
Illinois woods, more than two hundred of
the famous and historic Indian Trail trees.
The value and interest of their discovery is
shown in the fact that history records less
than a dozen such trail trees. Mr. and Mrs.
Gloede have photographed them and have
made maps showing how to reach them.
In his work as a landscape gardener, Mr.
Gloede developed many of the finest private
estates in the Chicago area. His work today
beautifies many city parks and government
grounds here and elsewhere. Mr. Gloede
was the constructor of Indian Boundary
Park, and of the world-known Japanese
Gardens on Wooded Island in Jackson Park,
Chicago. He also did much of the landscap-
ing for the Century of Progress Exposition
at such locations as the famous Lincoln
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Group. Such specimens of his work give some
indication of the exceptional quality of his
abilities.
Mr. and Mrs. Gloede were pioneers in
experimenting with the electrical culture of
plants, out-of-doors and under glass, in their
Conservatories at Evanston.
Mr. and Mrs. Gloede fostered the idea of
illuminating outdoor Christmas trees during
the holiday season, beginning about fifty
years ago. He pioneered the flood-lighting
of gardens as far back as 1891.
For years Mr. and Mrs. Gloede have
been noted for their hybridizing of plants,
especially delphiniums. Their choice del-
phiniums are known throughout the flower
centers of the world. They also produced
the Wonder Berry, a cross between a straw-
berry and a raspberry. Many interesting
hybrids are accredited to Mr. and Mrs.
Gloede. A number of United States patents
were issued to Mr. Gloede.
Together, Mr. and Mrs. Gloede have
given a fine service in helping others to see
and appreciate nature's wonderful work.
Mr. Gloede was a member of the Burbank
Society which honor is bestowed in recogni-
tion of achievements in horticulture and flori-
culture upon but a few persons.
Richard F. Gloede died February 20,
1939, in his sixty-ninth year. As an architect
and constructor of landscape gardening, and
in hybridizing plant life, he was a leader in
his profession. Fie was a great nature lover,
having been born with an exceptional appre-
ciation of trees, flowers, and all kindred
things. His life carried out the advice of
the motto on his father's coat-of-arms :
"Leave the World more beautiful than you
found it." Mr. and Mrs. Gloede together
have accomplished a great deal for which
they are to be thanked. "He is happiest who
hath the Power to gather Wisdom from a
Flower."
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LEROY ALBERT GODDARD
T eroy Albert Goddard was born at
■■— ' Marion, Illinois, June 22, 1854, a son
of James T. and Winefred (Spiller) God-
dard. He was the youngest in a large family.
He went to public schools at Marion and
at Carbondale, Illinois. He was elected city
Treasurer of Marion when he was but
twenty-one years old, and Mayor when he
was twenty-three.
His subsequent distinguished career can
be summarized as follows:
He was a merchant and banker at Marion
until 1890, in which year he organized and
became president of the First National Bank
of Mount Carmel, Illinois. In 1892 he came
to Chicago and became associated with the
Fort Dearborn National Bank.
He was made president of that bank in
1903. In 1908 he joined the State Bank of
Chicago. He was made iresi^-nt in 1909,
and so continued until 1 J> 19, when he was
made chairman of its be, arc! of directors. He
retired in January 19s\.
He had also been president of the Chicago
Clearing House; Treasurer of the Chicago
Stock Exchange; member of the Normal
School Board of Illinois; ex-president of the
Illinois Bankers' Association; a governing
and a life member of the Art Institute of Chi-
cago; a life member of the Field Museum of
Natural History and of the Chicago His-
torical Society; and a member of the Illinois
Sons of the American Revolution, the Chi-
cago Club, the Union League Club of Chi-
cago, the Racquet Club and the Bankers'
Club. He was president of the Union League
Club and Bankers' Club. He was a 33rd de-
gree Mason.
Leroy A. Goddard was married Novem-
ber 14, 1888 at Vincennes, Indiana, to Miss
Anna Breidenthal, who survives him. Mr.
and Mrs. Goddard have lived at 1419 North
State Street, Chicago, for many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Goddard gave the lovely
Goddard Chapel to Marion, Illinois.
Leroy A. Goddard died on January 22,
1936. His is one of the most distinguished
careers in the history of banking in Chicago.
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LEROV ALBERT GODDARD
IIHRARV
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
Ill «M>Y
UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
ALBERT WHALING GOODRICH
ALBERT WHALING GOODRICH
The late Albert W. Goodrich of Chicago,
owner and operator of steamships on the
Great Lakes, was born in Chicago, Illinois,
November 24, 1868, a son of Albert E.
Goodrich and Rosamond Frances (Whaling)
Goodrich.
In 1858 his father founded the Goodrich
Transit Company which, as years passed,
became one of the largest and best known
steamship lines on the Great Lakes.
Albert W. Goodrich, as a boy, went to
school in Chicago; then he studied in Dres-
den, Germany. About 1885 he went to work
for the Goodrich Transit Company. In 1889
he was made president of the company and
he continued to fill that important office, with
success and distinction until 1921, in which
year the business was sold. Mr. Goodrich
was one of the leaders in Great Lakes ship-
ping for many years.
In 1914 he participated in an interna-
tional conference held in London, England,
to increase the safety of life at sea. At the
conference he represented the steamship com-
panies engaged in carrying passengers on the
Great Lakes.
From 1917 to 1921 Mr. Goodrich ren-
dered Chicago a fine service as a commis-
sioner of Lincoln Park.
In 1927 he was appointed Fire Commis-
sioner of the City of Chicago, which office
he held for four years.
He was long a member of the Great Lakes
Passenger Lines Association, the American
Society of Naval Architects and Marine En-
gineers, the Saddle and Cycle Club, the Tav-
ern Club, and the Chicago Club.
He possessed a true appreciation of beauty
and his home is a treasure house of art.
Mr. Goodrich was married November 1,
1893, to Miss Elizabeth McKay, a daughter
of James Robert McKay who will be remem-
bered as an early day grain merchant in
Chicago. She died in 1918. There are two
daughters and a son: Elizabeth (Mrs. C.
Goodwin Cushing), Rosamond (Mrs. Ken-
neth Carpenter) and Albert E. Goodrich.
On February 11, 1920, Mr. Goodrich
married Miss Anna Ambrose, a daughter
of William T Ambrose.
The death of Albert W. Goodrich occurred
March 30, 1938, in his seventieth year. He
was one of the most distinguished men in
Chicago.
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WALTER A. GRAFF
"117'alter A. Graff was born in Clarinda,
* * Iowa, December 31, 1874, a son of
Valentine Graff and Nannie (Fairley) Graff.
We believe the following review of his most
interesting life to be correct.
As a boy he attended Lake Forest Acad-
emy at Lake Forest, Illinois; and in 1896 he
graduated from Lake Forest College.
After that he went to work for the Mer-
chants National Bank in Chicago. In 1908
he went with Kleybolte and Company, han-
dling investment securities. Then, for a time,
he was associated with McCoy and Company,
investment bankers. Later he went into busi-
ness for himself.
From there he was called to become vice-
president of Lyon, Gary and Company.
When that business was reorganized in 1920
as Baker, Fentress and Company he was
made vice-president. He so continued until
1927, at which time he was chosen president.
He filled that important office until his death.
Baker, Fentress and Company and their
predecessor, Lyon, Gary and Company, have
long been recognized as outstanding bankers
to the lumber trade of America.
Mr. Graff was also president of the Che-
halem Lumber Company, chairman of the
Board of the Medford Corporation, and
vice-president of the Arkamiss Lumber Com-
pany, and of the Saginaw and Manistee Lum-
ber Company; and he was a director of the
Port Orford Cedar Company, of the Wis-
consin Coosa Company, and of the Consoli-
dated Naval Stores Company of Florida.
Mr. Graff was married July 1, 1909 at
Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Ruth Kimball, a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Kim-
ball. They have one son, Walter A. Graff,
Jr., and one daughter, Ruth Kimball Graff
(Mrs. John G. McKechnie).
He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and also belonged to the University
Club and the Flossmore Country Club.
Walter A. Graff died April 21, 1937. He
was one of the best known and most highly
regarded men in America in the field of lum-
bering and of lumber financing.
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WALTER A. GRAFF
tlBBABV
W'VERSITK 0f ,
URBANA
UN^«sny „ (LLIN0(3
UffBANA
ERNEST ROBERT GRAHAM
ERNEST ROBERT GRAHAM
Tf rnest R. Graham was born in Lowell,
-^ Michigan, August 22, 1866, a son of
Robert and Emma (Post) Graham. It was
in 1888 that he came to Chicago and began
his career here.
He entered the employ of Holabird and
Root, architects. His ability and his effec-
tiveness were of such unusual worth that,
only a few years later, he was chosen to
become assistant director of works during the
construction and operation of Chicago's
World's Columbian Exposition.
In 1904 he was made a partner in D. H.
Burnham and Company, architects. In 1912
he became senior partner in Graham, Burn-
ham and Company. It was in 1917 the firm
of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White
was formed, with Mr. Graham as the senior
partner. This firm became known and
exceptionally highly regarded throughout
America and abroad. They have been the
architects of many famous structures, in-
cluding the Chase National Bank Building,
Wanamaker's Store Building, Flat Iron
Building, Equitable Building, and Eighty
Maiden Lane, all in New York City; the
General Post Office, and the Union Passenger
Station, in Washington, D. C. ; the Union
Trust Building, and the Union Passenger
Station and Terminal Tower, in Cleveland,
Ohio; the Field Museum of Natural History,
the John G. Shedd Aquarium, the Conti-
nental-Illinois National Bank Building, the
208 South La Salle Street Building, the stores
of Marshall Field and Company, Merchan-
dise Mart, Union Passenger Station, Straus
Building, the New Chicago Post Office, Field
Building, State Bank Building, and Twenty
Wacker Drive Building, all in Chicago,
Illinois; the Title and Trust Building, and
the Pennsylvania Station in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; the Self ridge and Company
store in London, England; and other struc-
tures of like character.
Mr. Graham was one of the ablest, most
helpful and public-spirited men that Chicago
has ever had. Throughout the long period of
his residence here his fine influence was felt
in countless ways.
Mr. Graham was married in 1894 to Miss
Carlotta Hall of Chicago. She died in De-
cember, 1923.
On December 14, 1925 Mr. Graham was
married, at Stokes Poges, England, to Mrs.
Ruby Powell Leffingwell.
Mr. Graham was a member of the Chicago
Club, Mid-Day Club, Old Elm, Sleepy Hol-
low, Shore Acres, and Racquet clubs in
Chicago, and the Metropolitan Club, and
Bankers Club, in New York.
He was a trustee of the Field Museum of
Natural History and was vice-president of
the John G. Shedd Aquarium.
In his will, Mr. Graham has provided for
the gift of a School of Fine Arts to be
created at the discretion of his trustees.
Ernest R. Graham died November 22,
1936. He was one of the most distinguished
men Chicago has known.
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ROBERT BOWMAN GREGORY
"O obert Bowman Gregory was born at
-^- Jonesville, Michigan, September 4,
1848, a son of Robert and Elizabeth Ann
(Bowman) Gregory. Robert Gregory was
born at Newport, New Hampshire, Septem-
ber 4, 1811 ; and his wife was born at Cler-
mont, New Hampshire, July 11, 1822. They
came to Michigan in 1837 and were married
January 18 of the following year. In 1863
Robert Bowman Gregory came to Chicago
with his parents, and was engaged as office
boy for Root & Cady, leaving that concern
to become a messenger boy for the State
Savings Bank. In 1864 the firm of Lyon
& Healy came into existence as a music
house, and Mr. Gregory was engaged as a
clerk, later becoming a traveling salesman
for the firm. From the age of nineteen years
to that of twenty-five, Mr. Gregory repre-
sented his house upon the road, and during
that period he exhibited such traits of char-
acter that Mr. Healy selected him to travel
through Europe to purchase for the firm the
smaller musical instruments they required in
the conduct of their business. It had been
the practice of the firm to buy from New
York City importers, but Mr. Healy, with
a wider outlook, realized the desirability of
coming into direct touch with the owners of
these instruments. As the opportunity was
thus offered, Mr. Gregory took many trips
to places of interest on the continent, in order
to add to his store of knowledge. He was
very particular to make these trips at his
own personal expense. In 1880, Mr. Greg-
ory was given an interest in the firm, and
when it was incorporated he was admitted
as a general partner, and from 1907 served
as its president continuously, with the excep-
tion of two years when he was chairman of
the board. It was Mr. Gregory who strongly
advised the installation of a talking machine
department, at a time when such action was
a decided innovation. In addition to his con-
nection with Lyon & Healy, Mr. Gregory
was a director of the Chicago Savings Bank
and Trust Company, and a member of the
Chicago Association of Commerce.
On December 18, 1880, Mr. Gregory was
married to Miss Addie Vanderpoel Hibbard,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gold
Hibbard of Chicago, the ceremony being
performed in Grace Episcopal Church. A
mention of Mrs. Gregory's parents appears
elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs.
Gregory became the parents of the following
children: Eleanor, who married Raymond
E. Durham, is the mother of Elizabeth
Champlin, Robert Gregory and Raymond E.
Durham, Jr.; Grace, who died August 10,
1904, and Ruth, who married Arthur
Sweetser of Boston, Mass., is the mother
of four surviving children. Mr. Gregory's
greatest delight was his family, and his
grandchildren were his constant companions.
In 1900 the Gregory family commenced
traveling extensively, visiting many places
in this country, South America, Egypt, Japan,
Bermuda and Algiers, and in 1911 encircled
the globe. The Gregory home for years has
been at 1638 Prairie Avenue, Chicago. In
1891 Mr. Gregory built a summer home in
Highland Park, Illinois, on the bluff over-
looking Lake Michigan. This they enlarged
from time to time. Mr. Gregory was a
vestryman of Grace Episcopal Church for
many years. He was trustee of the Water-
man School for Girls, the Church Home for
the Aged and of the Legal Aid Society. He
belonged to the Union League, Chicago
Athletic, and Exmoor Country Clubs. His
death occurred December 14, 1918, and in
his passing Chicago lost one of its most
representative and public-spirited citizens.
Mrs. Gregory has written "A Great Grand-
mother Remembers," reviewing an excep-
tionally long and happy life in Chicago.
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ROBERT BOWMAN GREGORY
IIBKARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
no
Um**t8lTY of
ILLINOIS
U*BANA
FELIX JOSEPH GRIFFEN
FELIX JOSEPH GRIFFEN
"Pelix J. Griffen, early resident of River
•*• Forest, Illinois, was born on a farm in
Wayne County, New York, November 17,
1848, a son of Joseph and Matilda
(Thomas) Griffen.
The following review of his life is correct
so far as our records indicate.
The Griffens were a fine, old Quaker fam-
ily in New York State. Felix J. Griffen was
only four years old when his father died.
As a boy he went to school near his home,
and then attended Marion Academy, in the
vicinity. Graduating there he was subse-
quently chosen in Wayne County to become
superintendent of schools. He resigned that
office later to take up the study of law, first
at the Albany Law School, and then at
Columbia University.
About 1877 he went west to Chicago, Illi-
nois, and there established himself in the
practice of law. It was in 1880 that he made
his home in the western suLurban area which
is now River Forest. He helped to organize
that Village and he was its first elected
President.
Mr. Griffen continued to be active in the
general practice of law throughout the rest
of his life, a period of about forty years. He
was attorney of many of the important
residential villages, west of Chicago, includ-
ing Melrose Park, Harlem, Elmhurst, La-
Grange, Hinsdale and others. He was also
widely known and highly regarded among
the many German farmers in Western Cook
County and DuPage County. Many of them
were his clients.
He was a director of the River Forest
State Bank.
Mr. Griffen's daughter, Miss Alice Griffen,
worked in his office with him for a number
of years.
Mr. Griffen's marriage took place Decem-
ber 19, 1872, at Marion, New York. He
married Miss Ellen Tassell, a daughter of
William and Elizabeth Tassell of Marion.
Mr. and Mrs. Griffen have two daughters,
Alice Griffen and Cora Griffen. The family
home has been in River Forest for nearly
sixty years.
Mr. Griffen was a member of the School
Board that was influential in securing the
present Oak Park and River Forest Town-
ship High School.
Felix J. Griffen died November 1, 1918.
His wife's death occurred April 19, 1939.
They are both remembered with respect and
affection.
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ALFRED H. GROSS
Alfred H. Gross was born at Whitby,
- Ontario, Canada, July 8, 1861, a son
of George Conrad Gross and Fanny Rankin
(Appleton) Gross. Theirs is an old and
notable English family.
George Conrad Gross was a prominent
manufacturer in Southampton, England,
where he was engaged in the copper indus-
try. He was also in charge of the cannon
which guarded the harbor of South Hamp-
ton. Subsequently he came to America with
the expectation of building steamships here,
a work for which his experience in earlier
years fitted him. However, he found this
to be impractical at that time. Then he be-
came active in the building of public service
gas works in the country, and he built many
successful plants both in the United States
and Canada. In his later years he established
his residence in the town of Whitby, Ontario,
and became a well-known hardware merchant
there.
Alfred H. Gross attended schools in
Whitby, then he entered Toronto Univer-
sity, taking three courses there. Following
his graduation in 1882, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, he continued his studies at
Johns Hopkins University in the United
States.
He practiced law for a year in Toronto,
after which he came to Chicago, Illinois.
There, for a time, he worked in the law
office of Hines and Dunne. Then he was
in partnership with John C. King.
Mr. Gross was also a member of the
National Gas and Water Company which
built a number of important gas works in
Illinois and elsewhere in the United States.
Alfred H. Gross was married December
20, 1888, at Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Anna
Frances Rew, a daughter of Henry C. Rew
and Theresa (Irwin) Rew. Her father came
from a family of pioneers among whom were
early settlers in Connecticut and New York
state. Henry C. Rew was in the grain
business in Albany and Buffalo, New York.
Later he came to Chicago and was an out-
standing grain merchant, a member of the
D. W. Irwin Company.
Mr. and Mrs. Gross have three daugh-
ters and one son: Dorothy; Henry; Helen
Theresa; and Alfreda Gross. There are six
grandchildren: Sallie Anna Thomas; Dor-
othy Hamilton Grant; Dana Wentworth
Grant; Anne Irwin Haskell; Joan Claflin
Haskell; and Louis Edward Gross.
Mr. Gross was a valued member of the
Chicago Bar Association, Union League Club
of Chicago, Chicago Athletic Association,
Glenview Golf Club, University Club of
Evanston, and the York Golf Club in York
Village, Maine.
The family home is in Evanston, Illinois,
and their summer home in York Village,
Maine.
The close of Mr. Gross' life here came,
in his seventy-fifth year, on August 15, 1935.
He possessed the excellent qualities of a true
English gentleman. He is remembered by
his many friends for his kind heart, his
keen sense of humor and his love of
poetry.
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ALFRED H. GROSS
IIHHARY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBAN*
LI kARV
"K'VETOITK Of ILLIN0(3
UftBANA
WILLIAM WIRT GURLEY
A RESIDENT of Chicago for nearly fifty
■**■ years, and prominently identified with
legal and business interests here for an equal
period, the late William W. Gurley stands
as one of the builders of Chicago's prosperity
and a man whose ripened judgment and un-
questioned integrity benefited every enter-
prise with which he was connected.
William W. Gurley was born January 27,
1851, in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, a son of John J.
and Anseville C. (Armentrout) Gurley. His
early training was gained in the public schools
and in Ohio Wesleyan University, from which
he graduated in 1870, with the degree of
Bachelor of Arts.
His father was a lawyer, and W. W. Gur-
ley began the reading of law in his father's
office. In 1871 he was made superintendent
of the public schools of Seville, Ohio, and
served for two years. He was admitted to
the bar of Ohio in June, 1873.
It was in September of the following year
that Mr. Gurley came to Chicago to engage
in the practice of law. From his beginning
here, as a young man, he advanced in the
ensuing years to a recognized place among
the really great lawyers of the state. His
work was largely done for corporations. Mr.
Gurley was general counsel for the Chicago
Railways Company, for the Chicago Consoli-
dated Traction Co., Chicago Surface Lines,
and other corporations. He was a director
of Wakem & McLaughlin, Inc., of the J. S.
Stearns Lumber Company, the Lyon Cypress
Lumber Company, and the Baker Lumber
Company, and also a director of Lyon, Gary
& Company, and vice-president of Baker
Fentress & Company.
William W. Gurley was married, October
30, 1878, to Miss Mary Eva Turney, a
daughter of the late Hon. Joseph Turney of
Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gurley have
one daughter, Miss Helen Kathryn Gurley.
The family attend the Fourth Presbyterian
Church, Chicago. Mr. Gurley was a mem-
ber of the American, Illinois State, and Chi-
cago Bar Associations. For some years he
has been a member of the Chicago Club,
Union League Club, Exmoor, Edgewater
Golf, Chicago Golf, and the Transporta-
tion Club of New York City, the University
Club of Chicago, and a member of Masonic
order.
Mr. Gurley's life among us was notably
fine and strong. His death March 11, 1923,
was a distinct loss to the enterprises under
his direction and a real sorrow to the many
people who knew him. Mrs. Gurley survived
him until January 28, 1938.
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ALBERT FRANCIS HENNING
T^\r. Albert F. Henning was born at
■*-^ La Grange, Illinois, February 11, 1880.
He began his education in the public
schools in Iowa, and then took up the study
of pharmacy at Des Moines. Then, deciding
to prepare himself to become a Doctor of
Medicine, he entered the Medical School of
the University of Illinois. After completing
his course there he received his degree in
1904.
Soon after graduating he became an asso-
ciate of Dr. Ferguson. Later he went abroad
and studied in Europe for two and one-half
years. Upon his return to Chicago, he estab-
lished his own private practice on the South
Side of the city. For some years his offices
were located near Sixty-third Street and Uni-
versity Avenue. Then he moved to East 79th
Street.
Dr. Henning's first marriage was in 1905
to Miss Mary Meagher. She died in 1910.
In 1937 he married Miss Geneva Ginder.
They have one daughter, Frances Henning.
Dr. Henning was a Fellow of the American
College of Surgeons, and a member of the
Illinois and Chicago Medical Societies.
The death of Dr. Henning occurred Jan-
uary 25, 1941. He was one of the best known
doctors of the South Side of Chicago.
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ALBERT FRANCIS HENNING
UNIVERSITr OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
A
WILLIAM GOLD HIBBARD
WILLIAM GOLD HIBBARD
"117'illiam Gold Hibbard was born at
* ' Tompkins, New York, in 1825, a son
of Joel B. and Eliza (Gold) Hibbard. He
came of a fine, old eastern family which dates
back to the colonial epoch in American his-
tory, one of his ancestors, Major Nathan
Gold, being one of the nineteen petitioners to
Charles II of England, for the first charter
of Connecticut, the famous charter which was
afterward "hidden in an oak."
William G. Hibbard's education was ob-
tained in the public schools of his native town,
and an academy at Cortland, New York. It
was in 1849 that Mr. Hibbard came to Chi-
cago, Illinois, and became a clerk in the hard-
ware firm of Stimson, Blair & Co. In six
years he was able to establish an independent
firm, associating with himself Nelson and
occupied the block between State, South
Water, Wabash and the river. In 1925 the
company erected a fourteen-story building
just north of the river.
In 1882, under the advice of Mr. Hibbard,
the business was turned into a corporation
known as Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett and
Company, of which Mr. Hibbard remained
president.
Mr. Hibbard was always deeply interested
in Chicago's welfare. He was one of the
original members of the Commercial Club
of Chicago.
Mr. Hibbard was one of the founders of
the Continental Bank and was a director in
that and the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
for many years.
Contributing often to the Chicago His-
Frederick Tuttle and George M. Grey under torical Society and the Art Institute of Chi-
the firm name of Tuttle, Hibbard & Com.
pany, at 69 East South Water Street. Two
years later their building was destroyed by
fire, but immediately the business was re-
established at what was then No. 32 Lake
Street, In 1865 Messrs. Tuttle and Grey
retired, and their interests were purchased
by Mr. Hibbard and F. F. Spencer. Later
A. C. Bartlett, who had been with the house
since 1864, was admitted to partnership, and
then the name became Hibbard, Spencer &
Company. Continued expansion of business
necessitated a move, in 1867, to Nos. 92-94
Michigan Avenue, and there, in the midst of
cago in their constant and ever varying
development and growth, Mr. Hibbard was
deeply interested in them, and after a visit
to Egypt, presented a case of antique bronze
utensils from the land of the Nile to the Field
Museum. He traveled extensively, and in
his home had a small but fine collection of
paintings, including examples of Rosa Bon-
heur, Vibert, Troyon, Ridgeway Knight,
Gloss, and others of note. He also took a
most generous interest in the works of prac-
tical charity, and among many of the public
institutions of this character, in which he was
especially interested, was the Foundlings
their prosperity, they were found by the great Home of Chicago, of which he was presi-
conflagration in 1871. On the morning of dent for many years; 'St. Luke's Hospital,
October 10, however, less than twenty-four and Grace Episcopal Church, of which he
hours after their store was swept away, they was a warden for fourteen years,
resumed business with the remnants of their In 1855 Mr. Hibbard was united in mar-
stock at Mr. Tibbard's residence, 1701 riage with Miss Lydia Beekman Van Schaack,
Prairie Avenue. This was said to be the
quickest resumption of business in the his-
tory of the fire. Later, for several months,
the firm occupied a one-story shed on the
Lake Front, between Washington and Ran
of Manlius, New York. Her father, H. C.
Van Schaack, was a prominent lawyer of that
city and was descended from eminent pioneer
Dutch families in that state. To Mr. and
Mrs. Hibbard were born eight children,
dolph Streets, and by the middle of June namely: two sons, who died in infancy; Addie
moved into their rebuilt store at the old Vanderpoel, who is Mrs. Robert B. Gregory;
number on Lake Street. Later the business Nellie Brewer, who is Mrs. John Bucking-
was conducted in a massive structure which ham; Alice Ives, now deceased, who was
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Mrs. W. R. Stirling; Lillian Gold, who is ered by Mr. and Mrs. Hibbard, were given
Mrs. W. E. Casselberry; William Gold, Jr., to the Art Institute of Chicago. It is now
and Frank. installed in the Hutchinson Wing, to be a
Mr. Hibbard had many devoted friends, lasting memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Hibbard's
His death, which occurred October 11, 1903, interest in art and to their love for this city
removed from Chicago one of its most valued they helped to build,
citizens. A public school in Chicago has been given
The collection of Dutch antiquities, gath- his honored name.
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•"•'VE88ITK Of ,LLIN0,3
UBBANA
JOHN HAMILCAR HOLLISTER
P\ R. John H. Hollister was born August
-*-' 5, 1824, in Riga, New York, where he
lived but two years, his parents then removing
to Romeo, Michigan, where the early part of
his life was spent. In 1831 the father died,
leaving the widow with three little children,
of whom John, then seven years of age, was
the eldest. Considering the times and its
frontier positions, exceptional advantages,
both educational and social, were offered by
the town of Romeo. Its few inhabitants were
largely younger members of old New Eng-
land families, bringing with them into the
new West a demand for refinement and cul-
ture. The children who came up under this
influence were imbued with all that is best
in American civilization. Having diligently
availed himself of all the advantages offered
at home, the boy, at seventeen, went to Roch-
ester, New York, to pursue his studies and
determine upon his life work. Here he re-
sided in the family of his uncle, George A.
Hollister, a wealthy and influential citizen,
while taking a full course in the Rochester
Collegiate Institute. Deciding upon a profes-
sional career, he returned to Massachusetts,
the home of his ancestors, and entered the
Berkshire Medical College, from which he
graduated in 1847. The mother and home
were still in Romeo, and the West claimed the
new-made doctor by ties not to be sundered.
His first professional experience was gained
at Otisco, Michigan, where he remained until
1849, when he removed with his family to
Grand Rapids, Michigan. On January 2,
1849, he had married Miss Jennette Windi-
ate, to whose devotion, sympathy and counsel
much of his subsequent success was due. After
six happy and prosperous years in Grand
Rapids, the claims of Chicago for future
greatness impressed him, and a desire to be
in the midst of such advantages as would be
offered led him, in 1855, to locate with his
wife and son in this city.
In his profession no man held a higher or
more respected position than Dr. Hollister.
In 1856 he was one of the founders of the
Chicago Medical College, and there he held
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the chairs of Physiology, Anatomy, Path-
ological Anatomy and General Pathology.
Aside from this he occupied many positions
of honor and trust: 1855, Demonstrator of
Anatomy at Rush Medical College: 1863-64,
Surgeon to Mercy Hospital; for twenty years
Clinical Professor to the same institution and
associated with Mercy Hospital for over fifty
years; Attendant at Cook County Hospital,
and one of the presidents of its Staff; Presi-
dent of the Illinois State Medical Society and
its Treasurer for over twenty years; Trustee
of the American Medical Association for
eight years and editor of its journal for two
years; member and President of the Chicago
Medical Society and charter member of the
Academy of Sciences. During the Civil
War he served four years as Chief Sur-
geon at Camp Douglas. These, with all
the duties pertaining to a large practice, go
to make up the professional career of Dr.
Hollister.
Surrounded from childhood by all the in-
fluences of a devout mother and a Christian
home, his life was one long, consecration to
his Master's work. The minister and the
Christian physician go side by side, lightening
the load of sinful and sick humanity. The
opportunities opening on every side for a
helping hand or an encouraging word in such
a life are incalculable; and those who turned
to Dr. Hollister for aid never came in vain.
His sympathy, his counsel, his prayer, was
ever ready for the tempted and the afflicted.
All his life was devoted to Sunday-school
work, sometimes as a teacher, or leader of
young men, sometimes as superintendent, but
always there. As superintendent he served for
many years at Tabernacle, Clinton, Plymouth
and Armour Missions. The Union Park
Church grew out of a Sunday-school which
he organized; and many weak and struggling
churches owe their present life to his timely
work and generosity. For about half a century
he was a member of Plymouth Church, and
for years one of its deacons. His positions in
societies organized for Christian work were
varied and numerous. He was President of
the Y. M. C. A.; President of the Chicago
Congregational Club; President of the Chi-
cago Bible Society; Vice-President of the
American Sunday-school Union; member of
the Board of Guardians of the Reform
School; Director of the Illinois Home Mis-
sionary Society, and active member of the
Board of Commissions of New West Com-
mission.
In his home life Dr. Hollister was most
happy; surrounded by friends, endeared to a
vast circle, he held a position only to be won
by intelligence, culture and integrity. His
marriage with Miss Jennette Windiate was a
blessed one and their home in all the years
was ideal.
Mrs. Hollister died on February 14, 1909.
Their only son passed away in 1858. Their
daughter, Jennette, died in 1861. Their sur-
viving daughter is Isabelle (Mrs. Dr. Frank-
lin H. Martin) of Chicago.
Dr. Hollister died November 13, 1911.
Chicago has had many noble and successful
men, but none whose life offers to young men
a more fruitful example of all that is upright
and good than did Dr. Hollister's.
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Li k»RY
UhlVERSITV Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
FRANK HOLMES
FRANK HOLMES
Tj^RANK Holmes was born at Spondon,
A Derbyshire, England, October 28, 1871,
a son of William and Maria (Edwards)
Holmes. In 1872 the family came to the
United States and established their residence
at Chicago, Illinois. There Frank Holmes
later attended public schools, and went to
night school, where he studied engineering.
In 1891 he began the study of medicine,
receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine
and Surgery in 1895.
It was typical of Frank Holmes that,
throughout all of his mature life, he con-
tinued to be an earnest and able student of
men and affairs. It was written of him,
"Everywhere he sought information beyond
that applicable to, or offered by, the work
on which he was then engaged. He was never
at a standstill or quite content with his attain-
ments, but was reaching forward to new
acquirement so as to be better prepared."
He made engineering his life work, and was
eminently successful.
His practical work in engineering began
with the Winslow Brothers' Company in Chi-
cago. In 1891 he was with G. L. Clausten,
consulting engineer and contractor. In 1896
he went with the Engineering Department of
the City of Chicago as assistant engineer on
the ten million dollar Northwest Land Tun-
nel for water distribution. In 1902 he be-
came structural engineer for D. H. Burnham
and Company, and worked on such important
buildings as the Frick Annex in Pittsburgh,
the Hibernia Bank in New Orleans, the John
Wanamaker Stores in New York and Phila-
delphia, and the Union Station in Washing-
ton, D. C.
In 1906 he joined the Thompson-Starrett
Company, builders, in New York as their
superintendent of construction. His work
earned nation-wide recognition.
In 1913 he was made resident engineer
of the Permanent Building Division for the
Panama Canal. He supervised the construction
of the Administration Building, residences,
and a school, the famous hydroelectric sta-
tion at Gatun, and four large sub-stations,
shops and office buildings in Balboa, large
commissary buildings, the refrigeration plant,
three radio stations and other works.
In 1915 he rejoined the Thompson-Starrett
Company as general superintendent.
In 1918 he became associated with the
George A. Fuller Company, large builders,
of New York. In 1921 he was made general
superintendent for the W. R. Grange Con-
struction Company at Pittsburgh.
From 1923 to 1931 he was with Starrett
Brothers, Inc., contractors, of Chicago and
New York, as their superintendent of con-
struction.
In 1933 he joined the H. M. Preston Com-
pany as director of research for that firm,
and he so continued throughout the rest of
his life.
Mr. Holmes died July 10, 1940. He was
one of the most highly esteemed men in the
great building industry in America. Mrs.
Holmes died January 27, 1942.
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PHELPS B. HOYT
TIT'illiam M. Hoyt, father of Phelps B.
™ * Hoyt, was born in New Haven, Addison
County, Vermont, on July 26, 1837, a son
of Carlos E. and Lydia Ann (Buttolph)
Hoyt. He is of the tenth generation of the
American branch of the family, and a direct
descendant of John Hoyt, who was one of
the original settlers of Salisbury, Connecticut.
Seth Hoyt, the grandfather, was a soldier of
the American Revolution, a justice of the
peace in New Haven, Vermont, and one of
the censors whose duty it was to pass upon
the legislative acts and laws of the common-
wealth.
The early life of W. M. Hoyt was spent
upon the home farm and in obtaining an
education in the public schools and the Ten
Broeck Academy at Panton, Vermont. In
1855, at the age of eighteen, he located in
Chicago, securing employment in a grocery
store conducted by a Mr. Be vans. Eighteen
months in this work was followed by a course
of study in Bell's Commercial College, from
which he graduated. After a service of an-
other year on a salary, in the employment
of a fruit dealer, he started business for
himself with a capital of $89, occupying a
room for which the rental was $1,100 per
annum. This was the real beginning of his
notable business career. Opening as a small
dealer in fruits, he later developed into a
wholesale grocer, whose trade reached many
sections of the United States.
In 1865 Mr. Hoyt bought the business of
James A. Whitaker, at No. 101 South Water
Street. The great fire in 1871 not only swept
away his store at the foot of Wabash Ave-
nue, but two stores which he then owned
on Dearborn Avenue.
In 1872 Mr. Hoyt purchased the site of
old Fort Dearborn at Michigan Avenue and
River Street, opposite Rush Street bridge.
Here he erected large salesrooms and ware-
houses. In addition the company owned the
building opposite, on River Street, which con-
tained its coffee and spice mills. Because of
its historic site of its main building, Mr. Hoyt
built into one of its walls fronting the river
a memorial tablet on which was engraved a
sketch of the forts (built 1803-4 and 1816)
which once occupied this ground.
The William M. Hoyt Company was in-
corporated under the state laws in 1882, with
the members of the old firm as stockholders.
In 1910 this company erected at Twenty-
second Street and the river, one of the largest
and best-arranged buildings devoted to whole-
sale grocery trade in the country. It has ideal
shipping facilities by rail or water and affords
accommodations for the various branches of
the business. Outside of his great business
house, Mr. Hoyt is best known as the founder
in 1872 of "The Grocer's Criterion," which
has developed into a leading trade journal
of its class in the United States. Mr. Hoyt
was an extensive owner of Chicago real es-
tate, particularly in the downtown districts.
On April 9, 1860, Mr. Hoyt married Miss
Emilie J. Landon, daughter of Nelson Lan-
don, of Benton, Lake County, Illinois, and
they had four children, as follows: William
Landon Hoyt, who died when five years of
age; Emilie Lydia Hoyt, who died in 1903;
Nelson Landon Hoyt; and Phelps Buttolph
Hoyt.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hoyt built
beautiful Christ Church, at Winnetka, Illinois.
Phelps Buttolph Hoyt was born in Chi-
cago on September 25, 1872. He attended
Harvard School and the University School
for Boys in Chicago and graduated from
Yale in 1893. He then entered his father's
business and became secretary and treasurer,
positions he filled until his death on Decem-
ber 12, 1908.
Phelps B. Hoyt was married on January
23, 1895, in Chicago, to Bessie Wade Allen.
There are two daughters, Mae Elizabeth
Hoyt (Mrs. T. Phillip Swift) and Emilie
Lydia Hoyt (Mrs. Dexter Cummings). The
Hoyts belong to the Episcopal Church. Mr.
Hoyt had membership in the Chicago Club,
Saddle and Cycle Club, Onwentsia, Glenview
Golf Club, of which he was president, and
the Sangamon Shooting Club. He was very
deeply interested in Chicago's development.
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PHELPS R. HOYT
IIHRARV
UNIVERSITY- Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
*"5s -
CHARLES EDWARD HUMISTON
CHARLES EDWARD HUMISTON
p\R. Charles E. Humiston will long be
-*->/ remembered for his outstanding work
as a surgeon and as an educator.
He was born in Washington County, Ohio,
March 17, 1868. Following his early school-
ing he studied at Beverly College and then
went to Chicago, Illinois, where he entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, now
the Medical Department of the University
of Illinois. He received his degree there in
1896 and was an interne at Cook County
Hospital.
He began his practice in Austin, a part
of Chicago, in 1898; and he continued to
serve the people of that area throughout all
the remainder of his life, a period of approxi-
mately forty years.
He was professor of surgery at the Col-
lege of Medicine of the University of Illinois
from 1905 until his retirement from that post
several years ago. He was attending surgeon
at Cook County Hospital for eighteen years.
He was one of the principal founders and
developers of the West Suburban Hospital,
and was that hospital's first president, and he
was a member of its board of directors from
the time the hospital was opened. He was
also a valued member of its surgical staff.
Dr. Humiston was a notably great con-
tributor to organized medicine and surgery
in Illinois. He was president of the Chicago
Medical Society in 1917-18 and also served
that body as its secretary for several terms.
He was president of the Illinois State
Medical Society in 1921-22. For three dec-
ades he was a delegate to the conventions of
that body.
From 1930 to 1937 he was a member of
the Council on Medical Education and Hos-
pitals for the American Medical Association.
He was a member of the House of Delegates
of the American Medical Association in 1915,
1916, 1918, 1919, and from 1921 to 1930.
Because of his outstanding work in medi-
cine he was given the honorary degree of
Doctor of Science by Marietta College.
Dr. Humiston was highly regarded as an
author; and he was also an effective and
well-known speaker on matters pertaining to
important community and public movements.
He accomplished much in raising the re-
quirements of the Illinois Board of Regis-
tration.
The present Medical Practice Act in Illinois
has a great deal to thank Dr. Humiston for.
His work in behalf of this Act is largely
responsible for making it one of the best
Acts of its kind in the entire United States.
He was co-author, with Woodbridge Riley
and Frederick W. Peabody, of "The Faith,
the Falsity and the Failure of Christian
Science."
Dr. Humiston was also active in promoting
the Young Men's Christian Association in
Austin. In literally countless other ways he
served his community as counsellor and
friend.
Dr. Charles E. Humiston. died Novem-
ber 4, 1940. He is survived by his wife, six
children, and eleven grandchildren.
Dr. Humiston's life of service and dynamic
accomplishment was a most noteworthy one.
It was written of him, "His profession has
rarely, if ever, been better exemplified as a
ministry to mankind than in the full and
serviceable life of Dr. Charles E. Humiston."
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W. KELSO HUNTER
\\T Kelso Hunter was born in Dallas,
* * • Texas, July 16, 1897, a son of John
and Lulu (Renner) Hunter. He went to
school in Dallas and to night school. He
worked hard throughout his boyhood and
began earning money by having several paper
routes.
Then he got a job as a clerk, in a retail
grocery store in Dallas, and worked his way
up to the position of manager.
Upon the entry of the United States into
the first World War, he enlisted for service
the first day after war was declared. He was
placed in the First Battalion of the One Hun-
dred and Thirty-third Field Artillery and
soon went overseas where he saw much
active service. After the Armistice was
signed he had charge of an overseas food
depot.
At the end of the war he returned to
Dallas, Texas, where he entered the employ
of the John F. Dillon Grocery. He was
soon made "buyer" for that concern.
Later he bought a store of his own in
Dallas, and took his brother into business
with him. They prospered and enlarged their
property.
Kelso Hunter was one of the organizers
of the Dallas Service Grocers, and was the
first president of that organization.
He came to be recognized as one of the
most able men in the grocery trade, not only
in Dallas but in the South.
He was eventually called to Chicago, Illi-
nois, and was made vice-president of the
Independent Grocers' Alliance.
Not long before his death he became
president of the Grocers' Wholesale Com-
pany of Birmingham, Alabama.
Mr. Hunter's remarkable record in the
wholesale grocery business was brought to an
abrupt close, when he was only thirty-six
years old, by his accidental death. He is
survived by his wife, Fay Hunter, his one
daughter, Jane Hunter, and by Ruth Laza-
rus, his wife's daughter by an earlier
marriage.
Mr. Hunter died October 1, 1933. He
had a most comprehensive knowledge of the
requirements and opportunities of both the
retail and wholesale grocery trade. There
are few men in the entire industry whose
judgment was as accurate and effective as was
his. It is notable that in the short period of
his business life he rose to near the top of the
industry. He will also be remembered by his
host of friends and acquaintances with real
affection for his great kindness, generosity
and understanding.
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W. KELSO HUNTER
UNIVERSITr OF ILLlNOtS
URBANA
fMvE
"sir? 0f
U*BANA
ILLI»0I3
CHARLES HOVEY HI RLRIT
CHARLES HOVEY HURLBUT
r\R. Charles H. Hurlbut was born at
-*-^ Evanston, Illinois, on January 16, 1870.
He began his education in public schools
at Oak Park, Illinois, and at the Chicago
Normal Training School. Then, for a short
period, he worked for the American Can
Company, and for the Fairbanks, Morse
Manufacturing Company.
By the end of that time he had definitely
made up his mind that he wanted to study
to become a dentist; so he entered the Chi-
cago College of Dental Surgery. He became
an outstanding undergraduate student there
and was honored by membership in their
scholarship society. Following his gradua-
tion he established himself in private practice
with offices in the Marshall Field Building
in downtown Chicago. As time passed he
developed a large practice, and his patients
became exceptionally devoted to him.
Then, to be nearer his North Shore pa-
tients, he opened offices in Evanston. Gradu-
ally his entire practice was transferred to
Evanston. There his patients came to him
from all over the Chicago area.
Dr. Hurlbut was especially fine also in his
work with children.
He was very much interested in profes-
sional unity. No man has had a more effective
influence in furthering the aims of dental
organization in the Chicago area.
He was a leader in the organization and
development of the Evanston Dental Associa-
tion, and of the North Shore Dental Asso-
ciation, and was their first president.
Through Dr. Hurlbut and Dr. Joseph
Leigh the early plans were made to take
care of the teeth of underprivileged children
in Evanston. They proposed to the Board
of Education that members of the Evanston
Dental Association go into the schools and
inspect the teeth of children and then give
free dental care to the children whose parents
could not afford to pay for it. This plan
was adopted, and later was expanded into
the school dental clinic which the Evanston
Dental Society equipped. It has proved to
be a great benefit in lessening the retarded
mental as well as the physical development in
children. Now, as in Evanston, in the larger
schools throughout the nation, regularly as-
signed school dentists are provided.
Dr. Hurlbut was very helpful to many
young dentists while they were getting estab-
lished in practice.
He kept thoroughly abreast of new and
proven advances in dentistry. He had one
of the first x-ray machines of any dentist in
this part of the country. Also, in many other
ways, he was long a leader in the progress
of his profession.
Dr. Hurlbut was married December 16,
1909, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Miss Marian
Beye. They have two sons, David and John
Hurlbut. The family home is in Oak Park,
Illinois.
Dr. Hurlbut was active in the First Con-
gregational Churches of both Oak Park and
Evanston. It will also be recalled that he
was one of the men who first fostered the
Boy Scout movement in Evanston.
He was a life member of the Y.M.C.A.
and he also belonged to the Evanston Club,
and to the Skokie and Westmoreland Coun-
try Clubs.
Dr. Charles H. Hurlbut died June 27,
1935. Simple, modest, a tireless worker and
an excellent technician in his profession, he
became one of the best loved men in his field
of work in Illinois. His ability and his pro-
fessional integrity were beyond question.
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ROBERT LEE JAMES
The late Dr. Robert Lee James was a
well known physician and surgeon at Blue
Island, Illinois, for nearly half a century.
He was born at Morris, Illinois, Septem-
ber 5, 1865, a son of Elisha B. and Sarah
(Evans) James who were early settlers and
farmers in the vicinity of Morris, Illinois.
He went to public schools as a boy, and then
to Normal School and to Oberlin College.
Then he entered Rush Medical College and
was graduated there in 1890.
He began private practice in Blue Island,
Illinois, in 1891, and he continued to serve
the people of Blue Island throughout all the
rest of his life, a period of more than forty-
five years. His work was devoted to general
practice and he was also much in demand as
a surgeon. He was on the staff of St. Francis
Hospital, and at the Ingals Memorial Hos-
pital. By request, he performed the first
operation at Ingals Memorial Hospital.
Dr. James was married December 31,
1891, to Miss Jessie E. Butler of Hancock,
Michigan. They have two sons, Earle B.
James and Robert A. James.
Dr. James belonged to the Congregational
Church, and also to the Masons, the Chicago
Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical
Society, and to the American Medical Asso-
ciation.
During the World War, Dr. James was
head of the Draft Board in Blue Island.
He served as President of the School Board
in Blue Island for fifteen years. In many
ways his life and work are intimate parts of
the history of the progress of Blue Island.
Dr. R. L. James died March 3, 1938. He
was an exceptionally able man and was pos-
sessed of an unusually kind and understanding
heart. No man has meant more to the life
and well-being of Blue Island, Illinois, than
Dr. James.
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ROBERT LEE JAMES
tlHRMJY
UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
I I. ,ioy
LESLIE BURRITT JOSLYN
LESLIE BURRITT JOSLYN
~^R. Leslie B. Joslyn was born on a farm
*^ in McHenry County, Illinois, April 8,
1886, a son of Everett O. and Ella (Burritt)
Joslyn. After attending high school at Ma-
rengo, Illinois, he entered Armour Institute
of Technology in Chicago ; then he attended
Northwestern University. He graduated
from the Medical School of Northwestern
University in 1910 with his degree of Doctor
of Medicine. He was an interne at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital in 1910-11 and at Chi-
cago Lying-in Hospital in 1911-12. Then
he began his long term of service in private
practice.
Dr. Joslyn will especially be remembered
for his work in the Joslyn Clinic which he
founded at Maywood, Illinois. The Clinic
was very close to his heart. He was one of
the founders of Westlake Hospital, and was
senior surgeon there since 1929, and he was
surgeon for several railroads and industrial
plants.
Dr. Joslyn was married September 2,
1914, to Miss Alice Mary Pratt of Elgin,
Illinois. Their children are Mary Margaret
(Mrs. James S. Yonkosky), Howard Pratt
Joslyn, and Virginia Irene (Mrs. Donald J.
Reno).
Dr. Joslyn was a director of the Proviso
Hospital Association. He was a Fellow of
the American Medical Association.
He was a notable aviation enthusiast and
owned and flew his own plane.
The death of Dr. Leslie B. Joslyn came
on August 18, 1933. He earned, to an
unusual degree, the appreciation and trust
of his patients and the high regard of pro-
fessional associates.
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THEODORE WESLEY KOCH
Theodore Wesley Koch, librarian and
author, of whom a colleague said, "so
highly was he revered for his scholarship, so
loved for his geniality and helpfulness" that
he was for "Illinois and, in fact, the entire
country . . . one of her greatest ambassadors
of good will for libraries," was born in Phila-
delphia, August 4, 1871. His parents were
William Jefferson and Wilhelmina Bock
Koch, his father being the great-grandson of
one William Koch, who served with the
American army in the Revolutionary War,
and the great-great-grandson of a Henry
Koch who came in 1783 from Germany to
Pennsylvania. Among Theodore Koch's im-
mediate relatives were business men, lawyers,
judges, and teachers. He grew up with three
brothers and a sister, his father being in turn
a successful business man and a banker. His
mother was noted for her fine mind and her
unusual kindness and devotion to her church
and family. Inheriting her lovable disposi-
tion, Theodore Koch began early in life to
collect friends.
He attended the public schools of Phila-
delphia with his brothers, always keeping
near or at the head of his class. Not only
was reading a delight to him from his child-
hood, but he was trained by unusual teachers,
so that during his high school years he de-
veloped what was to be a lifelong interest in
literature, Romance languages, and art. Par-
ticularly was his imagination fired by the
Greek and Latin classics, by Dante, and by
the pre-Raphaelites.
In 1888 he was graduated from the Cen-
tral High School of Philadelphia, and entered
the University of Pennsylvania, where, in
1892, he finished with an A.B. During col-
lege vacations he began his European travels
by walking through parts of the British Isles,
France, Holland, and Germany, learning to
speak the languages and making his first visit
to Paris. His friendly disposition and eager
intelligence drew to him many pleasant and
unusual experiences, as well as some Euro-
pean friendships which lasted throughout his
life.
After this broad preparation he entered
Harvard, where he spent two years specializ-
ing in modern languages with the idea of
teaching them, winning an A.B. in 1893 and
an M.A. in 1894, "both before his twenty-
third birthday." In 1908 he was elected to
Phi Beta Kappa when a chapter was installed
at the University of Pennsylvania.
The five years after leaving Harvard he
spent at Cornell University, making a cata-
logue of the Willard Fiske Dante collection,
a work in two volumes considered to be "the
basic reference tool on Dante" and long
recommended to the students in library
schools as a goal in bibliography. This was
followed in 1896 by Dante in America
and later by other Dante studies.
The years 1900-1901 Theodore Koch
spent in Paris, studying at the University,
where he developed a love for French life
and literature which lasted as long as he
lived. In later years he translated many tales
of French bibliophiles; and he was recog-
nized as a friend of France when, in 1940,
the French Republic decorated him with the
cross of the Knight of the Legion of Honour.
He had planned to continue his studies at
the University of Paris for several years, but
in April, 1902, he was called from Europe
to a position in the Library of Congress. This
event turned the prospective teacher of mod-
ern languages into a future librarian. After
two years of pleasantly interesting work in
Washington, during which time he became a
charter member of its University Club, he
left to become the assistant librarian at the
University of Michigan. The following year
he was promoted to the position of librarian,
which he held until 1915 and then, after a
year's leave of absence, resigned. In 1907,
while at Ann Arbor, he was married to Ger-
trude Priscilla Humphrey of Lansing, Michi-
gan, librarian of the local public library, and
daughter of Henry Humphrey, an accountant
and banker. Their daughter, Dorothy Alden
Koch, was born at Ann Arbor in 1913.
At Michigan, Mr. Koch modernized, lib-
eralized, and beautified the library and build-
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THEODORE WESLEY KOCH
UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
ing in many ways. As a member of the
faculty wrote of him, "in a few months he
transformed the place from a static to a dy-
namic institution." In time the periodical
room was opened to the public, student access
to books was greatly increased, and Sunday
opening inaugurated; in 1909 summer courses
in library methods were given, which led to
the founding of a library school in 1926. He
also planned toward and helped secure the
appropriation for the new library building;
and he was effective, too, in various academic
and social affairs, in clubs (the "Cataleps,"
the "Apostles," and others), and in civic life,
being one of the founders of the Ann Arbor
Art Association, and belonged to the Ann
Arbor Library Club, and the Michigan Li-
brary Association, of which he was president.
Meanwhile he took several trips abroad.
In 1908 he represented the American libra-
ries at the meeting of the British Library
Association, and visited Andrew Carnegie at
Skibo Castle in connection with his forth-
coming book about Carnegie libraries. In
1914 he was delegated to open the American
section of the Leipzig Book Fair, and to
make a study of the Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg. Pamphlets describing these were
later published.
In Ann Arbor he lectured on a variety
of subjects — on Dante, on bibliographical
topics, and on his travels. After resigning
from Michigan in 1916, he entered the Li-
brary of Congress as Chief of the Order
Division. Shortly before America entered the
first World War, Mr. Koch was sent to
London to try to further the interests of
American libraries by persuading the British
censorship to remove the restrictions from
German and other scientific enemy publica-
tions. In this he was partially successful,
although, owing to acute war-time conditions,
he did not get to the continent and had to
work entirely in London. While there, he
investigated the Lou vain Library and pub-
lished a book and several articles on behalf
of its restoration, and subsequently many
volumes were collected for it in America.
The outstanding result of this trip was his
report to Mr. Putnam, the Librarian of Con-
gress, and to the American Library Associa-
tion, of the British efforts to provide libraries
for their soldiers and sailors. This was fol-
lowed by the initiation of corresponding war
libraries on a larger scale for our army and
navy. Mr. Koch's volume, Books in the
War: the Romance of Library War
Service, was published in 1919, following
several shorter descriptions of various phases
of the work, such as Books in Camp,
Trench, and Hospital.
In the autumn of 1919 he came to North-
western University as University Librarian
to build a new library. He promptly began
to increase the book collection and to beautify
the old Lunt building and grounds wherever
possible, also enlarging the staff and putting
into effect some technical reorganization.
When, in December, 1932, the beautiful new
Charles Deering Library was opened through
the generosity of Mrs. Charles Deering and
her family, much of the work that had gone
into its plans and decorations was the result
of Mr. Koch's effort. The rare pictures,
busts, and collections, came from many
sources; so, later, did most of the handsome
evergreens, shrubs, and even the fine statues
in the gardens, which were contributed by
many donors, whose generosity was fre-
quently kindled by the librarian.
These were extremely busy years for Mr.
Koch in building up the rapidly increasing
book collection with the addition of many
rare items; of interviews with faculty, staff,
students, and public; and of developing both
the "browsing room" within the library, and
the garden reading-room without. At the
same time he was continually energetic in his
own civic and literary activities, as he was a
member, and at times the chairman, of the
Norman Wait Harris Lecture Foundation,
the Honorary Degrees committee, and many
others. He helped collect and establish the
University College library on Northwestern's
Chicago Campus, and those for Willard Hall
and Scott Hall. He was a consultant on the
plans for the library of Northwestern's
Technological Institute and those of other
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colleges and universities of this country.
His activities also included many lectures
of his own before college and library groups
all over the country. Of those he gave later
in his life, perhaps the best-known was his
talk on "Literary Forgeries of the Nine-
teenth Century." His spare time was also
occupied with the trips which he continued
to take every few years to the libraries and
bookshops of Europe. On one of these, in
1928, he was persuaded to take twenty li-
brarians for "A Bibliographical Tour"
through Europe; the party had access to the
treasures of continental libraries and to the
homes of many librarians and booksellers.
Organizations of various sorts found him
a constructive member and a capable officer.
He served as a trustee of the Evanston Public
Library for over ten years, and as president
of the University Club of Evanston twice.
He was a liberal Republican and a member
of the Congregational Church. He was, also,
an honorary member of the Dante Society of
London, vice-president of the American Li-
brary Association, President of the Library
Institute, life member of the American Bib-
liographical Society, of the American Library
Association, and of the Dante Society of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. He belonged to
the Alliance Francaise, the Cliff Dwellers',
Wayfarers, and Caxton Clubs of Chicago.
While president of the last, for his second
term, he passed away.
His writings were in several sections of
one broad field. A few examples from the
many are: Reading, a Vice or Virtue?;
A Staff Manual and Handbook for
Librarians; Old Time, Old World Li-
brarians; articles and pamphlets on the Uni-
versity of Michigan and Northwestern libra-
ries; Studies in Library Architecture,
Present-day Library Building; Book of
Carnegie Libraries; "The Great Libra-
ries of the World," a series of mono-
graphs, including the Bibliotheque Nationale,
the Imperial Public Library of Petrograd, the
British Museum, and the Bodleian and Vati-
can. Later came his translations of French,
and, in less number, German Tales for
Bibliophiles, as The Assembly of Books.
The Mirror of the Parisien Bibliophile
was illustrated by a Spanish artist. These
were noted for their beautiful printing, illus-
trations and binding. There were other mis-
cellaneous writings, such as the Florentine
Book Fair, part of a volume on bookplates,
including some of Stefan Zweig's works, and
the Deering Library Bulletin. His love for
fine printings and binding was impressively
shown in these works of his "leisure hours,"
which were made possible by the fact that for
many years he had seldom spent an unoccu-
pied moment, even in his beloved sunken
garden at the library.
The following estimate of his character is
taken from the memorial address of the
president of Northwestern University. "He
was a scholar in his own right, and an inde-
fatigable helper of other scholars. He was
a master of his profession, who understood,
not only the technique of library administra-
tion, but also the potential significance of a
library as a cultural center. He was a gra-
cious, public-spirited human being, thoughtless
of his own comfort and welfare, a spendthrift
of his own time and energy whenever he
could be of help to others, and a man of
genial humanity."
Although of a naturally serious nature,
"T.W.K.," as he was affectionately called,
had a keen and whimsical sense of humour
which enlivened his talk and sparkled in his
stories and speeches. He lived in continu-
ously amiable relations with his neighbors,
his staff, his colleagues, and all his fellow
men. He had a contagious enthusiasm in
his work. Although firm in standing for
the right as he saw it, he was quiet and
gentle. He was a believer in beauty and cul-
ture for all. As a newspaper friend wrote of
him, "He was one of the kindliest men I ever
knew."
He passed away suddenly March 23,
1941. Almost immediately a memorial
"choice book fund" was given to the Charles
Deering Library by his many friends. The
Board of the Evanston Public Library also
started a book fund in his honor.
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CHARLES C. LINTHICUM
CHARLES C. LINTHICUM
(Charles C. Linthicum was born at
^ Bloomington, Illinois, November 11,
1857, a son of Noah and Hannah (Furr)
Linthicum, natives of Virginia, who came to
Illinois about 1840, where the father en-
gaged in farming. When Charles C. Lin-
thicum was nine years old the family went
to Kansas for a time and he received an
excellent public school training there. Fol-
lowing this he attended normal school. In
1880 he came to Chicago, and then became
a student in Union College, from which he
was graduated in 1882 with the degree of
LL.B. The same year he entered upon pri-
vate law practice. Later he joined the firm
of Offield & Towle, which afterwards be-
came Offield, Towle & Linthicum, from
which he withdrew after a period of twenty-
one years and formed the firm of Linthicum,
Belt & Fuller. Still later he practiced alone
as Charles C. Linthicum, patent lawyer.
From the beginning of his professional
career Mr. Linthicum specialized on patent
law. Since 1903, for sixteen years, he gave
lectures on patent law to senior classes at
Northwestern University. Following his death
the Charles C. Linthicum Foundation was
established there in his memory.
In 1909 he was made patent attorney for
the United States Steel Corporation to suc-
ceed Thomas Blakewell of Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania. He also served in the same capacity
such concerns of national importance as Ar-
mour & Co., Pullman Co., Brunswick-Balke-
Collender Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.,
International Harvester Co., and many
others. At the time of his death Mr. Lin-
thicum maintained offices in New York, Wash-
ington, Pittsburgh, Chicago and in London.
Mr. Linthicum was connected with many
organizations, among them being the Amer-
ican Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar
Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the
Chicago Patent Law Association, American
Patent Law Association of Washington,
D. C. ; the Mid-Day, Glen View, and Auto-
mobile clubs of Chicago, and the University
Club of Evanston, the University Club of
Washington, the Union and Athletic clubs
of Pittsburgh, and the Tuscumbia Country
Club of Green Lake, Wisconsin. He was
also a member of the Union League Club
of Chicago and was for many years promi-
nently identified with the Iroquois Club of
the same city.
Mr. Linthicum was married February 27,
1879, to Eva Kate Graham of Chicago, a
daughter of Alvaro B. and Mary Graham.
They became the parents of two daughters,
namely: Mrs. Eda (Linthicum) McNair,
and Mrs. Lois (Linthicum) Hawley, both
of whom reside in Evanston, Illinois. There
are seven grandchildren: Charles C. Lin-
thicum McNair; Eben O. McNair; David
Graham McNair; Brenna Hawley; Priscilla
Hawley; Melvin Linthicum Hawley; and
Lois Hawley.
Mr. Linthicum was a member of the Con-
gregational Church.
The death of Charles C. Linthicum came
on December 12, 1916, soon after he had
passed his fifty-ninth birthday. He was gen-
erally considered to be the Dean of patent
lawyers in America.
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DONALD MacMURRAY
"T'Vonald MacMurray was born at Quincy,
-*->' Illinois, March 6, 1891, a son of James
E. MacMurray and Katharine (Merrill)
MacMurray, extended mention of whom is
made elsewhere in this volume.
He began his education at Andover Acad-
emy, and then went to Dartmouth College.
For a time thereafter he located in Colum-
bus, Ohio, where he was connected with a
factory manufacturing envelopes. From there
he was called to New York City to become
active in the office of the Acme Steel Com-
pany there. In more recent years he repre-
sented the Acme Steel Company in the
Chicago area.
Donald MacMurray was married Decem-
ber 9, 1916, at Chicago, Illinois, to Miss
Mildred Klein, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Albert S. Klein.
Mr. MacMurray was a member of St.
James Methodist Episcopal Church, and he
also belonged to the Chicago Club, Raquet
Club, Saddle and Cycle Club, Tavern Club,
University Club, and to the Chicago Golf
Club.
Donald MacMurray died September 26,
1939. He was a noteworthy son of a dis-
tinguished father.
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DONALD MacMI RRAY
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tlP-HARY
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JAMES EDWIN MacMURRAY
JAMES EDWIN MacMURRAY
James E. MacMurray was born on a farm
in Knox County, Missouri, August 7,
1862, a son of Fletcher MacMurray and
Miranda (Green) MacMurray. He worked
on the homestead until he was seventeen
years old; then he entered Chaddock College
at Quincy, Illinois. He studied law and later
established himself in the practice of that
profession at Quincy, Illinois.
By 1889 he had saved the sum of eighteen
hundred dollars "simply by not spending it."
That year he invested in a manufacturing
plant at Quincy. Later he bought a one-half
interest in that business and devoted himself
entirely to making the business a success.
Eventually he bought out the other owners.
The firm became the Quincy Hardware Man-
ufacturing Company. After ten years devoted
to developing that business, he moved it to
Chicago and merged it with the Acme Flex-
ible Clasp Company, of which he was made
president.
The business grew and prospered remark-
ably under Mr. MacMurray's inspiration and
guidance. The factory was enlarged from
time to time as necessity required. The com-
pany's products became so varied and com-
prehensive that the name 'Acme Flexible
Clasp" no longer represented the true scope
of the business. It was re-named the Acme
Steel Company.
He also founded the MacMurray Steel
Hoop Company which was merged with the
Acme Steel Goods Company.
Mr. MacMurray became one of the best
known men in the manufacture of steel goods
in America. He remained fully active in his
business until 1933, at which time he was
made chairman of the Board of Directors
of the Acme Steel Company. He was also
a director of the Kellogg Switchboard and
Supply Company and of the American Tag
Company.
In 1920 Mr. MacMurray was elected
State Senator for the Fifth District of Illi-
nois. His influence for good government and
economy was strongly felt in the Fifty-third
General Assembly.
Mr. MacMurray was married to Miss
Katharine Merrill and they have two daugh-
ters and one son; Miram (Mrs. Charles H.
Martin), Donald MacMurray, who died Sep-
tember 26, 1939, and Isabel (Mrs. E. Mal-
colm Anderson). Mrs. MacMurray died
August 22, 1907. On July 4, 1908, Mr.
MacMurray married Mrs. Jennie A. Rubel
of Chicago. She died in 1937, survived also
by James L. Rubel and Helen Rubel (Mrs.
Edward J. Winter). The family home was
in Chicago for many years. More recently
Mr. MacMurray has been living in retire-
ment in California.
Mr. MacMurray has accomplished a great
deal of lasting good through his many philan-
thropies. We should like to mention a few
here. For years he has had a deep interest
in the college for women at Jacksonville, Illi-
nois, formerly known as the Illinois Women's
College. It is now named MacMurray Col-
lege for Women. To this institution Mr.
MacMurray has given its present science
building, called MacMurray Hall. He also
gave Jane Hall and Ann Rutledge Hall
which are exceptionally fine dormitories. He
gave McClelland Hall and contributed
largely toward the Library and toward fur-
thering many other interests of the College.
He is a staunch member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and has frequently served
as a lay delegate to General Conferences.
Among his large gifts is one to Garrett Bibli-
cal Institute at Evanston, Illinois.
As the foregoing review attests, James E.
MacMurray is one of the most distinguished
men that Illinois has produced.
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FRANKLIN H. MARTIN
P\r. Franklin H. Martin was born at
*-^ Ixonia, Wisconsin, July 13, 1857, a son
of Edmond and Josephine (Carlin) Martin.
He received his early education in the public
schools and academies of Wisconsin, and then
entered Northwestern University Medical
School, Chicago, where he graduated with
his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1880.
Then he was an interne in Mercy Hospital.
After that he established his private practice
in Chicago, specializing in gynecology; and
he soon earned recognition as a very able
leader in that field of his profession.
Dr. Martin organized, in 1888, with Dr.
W. F. Coleman, the Post Graduate Medical
School of Chicago, and became gynecologist
and secretary of that institution, having pre-
viously served as Professor of Gynecology in
the Chicago Polyclinic. He was gynecologist
of the Women's Hospital of Chicago for
many years; organized and was chief sur-
geon of the Charity Hospital of Chicago;
and was also consulting gynecologist of St.
Luke's Hospital, Chicago.
He was active in the various scientific so-
cieties of his specialty and was honored with
the presidency of several of them, including the
International Association of Gynecologists
and Obstetricians, and the American Gyne-
cological Society, in 1919. Among the scien-
tific organizations of which he was a Fellow,
in addition to those mentioned above, are the
American Medical Association of which he
was the Chairman of the Section of Gynecol-
ogy and Abdominal Surgery in 1895; West-
ern Surgical and Gynecological Society;
Southern Surgical Association; Chicago Gyne-
cological Society; Academy of Surgery, De-
troit (Hon.); Saint Louis Medical Society
(Hon.) ; American Society for the Control
of Cancer; and many other local and national
surgical societies. He was an Honorary Fel-
low of the Sociedad del Cirugia del Peru;
the Academia Nacional de Medicina de Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil; the Society of Surgery of
Buenos Aires, and the National Academy of
Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and
Honorary Member of the Society of Ob-
stetrics and Gynecology, Buenos Aires, Ar-
gentina. He was made Honorary Member
of the Board of Medical Directors of the
Pan American Hospital in 1928.
His contributions to scientific progress are
detailed in many articles in surgical journals
and a number of books and monographs on
the subject of gynecology; in Fifty Years
of Medicine and Surgery, and in interest-
ing travel studies and observations on South
America, Australia and New Zealand which
have appeared in book and monograph form.
Doctor Martin's life story, The Joy of Liv-
ing, an Autobiography, was published in
1933.
In addition to the various institutions per-
taining to his specialty which he founded, he
early became identified with the broader
movements of scientific organizations de-
signed to uplift the standard of surgical prac-
tice. In 1910 he organized the Clinical Con-
gress of Surgeons of North America, an as-
sociation designed to improve the standard
of surgery throughout the United States.
That was followed, in 1913, by the organiza-
tion of the American College of Surgeons,
with headquarters in Chicago. The Ameri-
can College of Surgeons now has a mem-
bership of over eleven thousand of the
outstanding surgeons of the Western Hemis-
phere and other countries. The future of
the organization has been secured in per-
petuity by extensive land holdings and build-
ings in Chicago and a large endowment.
Under the wise direction of Dr. Martin, this
association has accomplished much to assure
the sick of competent surgery in well-regu-
lated hospitals. Dr. Martin was Director-
General of the American College of Surgeons
from its inception until his death in 1935.
He was President in 1928-1929.
In 1905, he founded Surgery, Gynecology
and Obstetrics, a surgical journal that has
grown to be one of the most influential scien-
tific publications in the world. He was the
Editor-in-Chief from its beginning.
During the World War, Dr. Martin was
appointed, by President Wilson, a member
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of the Advisory Commission of the Council
of National Defense; and became Chairman
of the General Medical Board. Under his
direction the state and county committees of
medical men were organized throughout the
nation; and they enrolled 35,000 medical
officers and 5,000 dentists in the Medical and
Dental Reserve Corps, and 75,000 physicians
and surgeons in the Volunteer Medical Serv-
ice Corps, a service of inestimable value to
the country in that time of stress. He was
a Colonel in the Medical Corps during that
time, serving in this country, and later was
with the A. E. F. in France. To his work is
credited, in no small part, the fact that at all
times our soldiers were served by a sufficient
number of able medical officers. For his
service during the World War, he received
from our Government the Distinguished
Service Medal; he was decorated by King
George V of Great Britain, through His
Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, as a
Companion of the Order of St. Michael and
St. George; and the Italian government made
him a Commander of the Order of the
Crown of Italy. In 1934, the U. S. Congress
published Doctor Martin's record of Pro-
ceedings of the Council of National
Defense and the Advisory Commission
During the World War.
Dr. Martin's work in civic life was also
of great consequence and value, throughout
the past years. He was a Trustee of North-
western University, Chicago; Founder and
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and
Preventive Medicine, Washington, D. C, and
Panama; a member of the Advisory Com-
mittee on Co-operation with Latin America ;
and was associated with many other organi-
zations and institutions. He was a member
of the Union League Club of Chicago, Ex-
moor Country Club, Chicago Literary Club,
American Academy of Political and Social
Sciences, and various other social and pro-
fessional organizations.
In addition to his decorations for war
service, he was honored by many scientific
and literary institutions. The degree of
LL.D. (Hon.) was conferred upon him by
Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland; D.P.H.
(Hon.), Detroit College of Medicine and
Surgery, Detroit; D.Sc. (Hon.), Northwest-
ern University, Chicago; LL.D. (Hon.),
University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, and
LL.D., University of Pittsburgh.
A portrait of Dr. Martin is in the collec-
tion at Northwestern University, in recogni-
tion of his services to that institution, and in
recognition of the remarkable contribution of
his works to the medical and surgical pro-
fessions and to the Nation.
He was married to Isabelle Hollister, the
daughter of John Hollister, a Founder of
Northwestern University Medical School,
May 27, 1886. Doctor Martin passed away
March 7, 1935. He was one of the most
notable Americans of his time.
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HENRY HOWARD MATHER
The late Dr. Henry H. Mather of
Auburn Park, Chicago, Illinois, was born
on a farm near Mokena, Illinois, December
15, 1860, son of Samuel and Mary (Snapp)
Mather. His parents had located in Illinois
about 1845.
As a boy, Henry H. Mather attended
country school near his home, and then
graduated from the Normal School at Val-
paraiso, Indiana. He graduated from the
Medical School of Northwestern University
in 1888, and then began private practice at
Minnesela, Minnesota.
The following year he moved to Chicago,
where he believed he would find more op-
portunity for progress, and he established
his home and his practice, on the south side,
in Auburn Park. He continued to practice
there throughout all the rest of his long and
serviceable life, a period of forty-eight years.
Dr. Mather was married in Linn Grove,
Indiana, September 14, 1889, to Miss Iantha
Huffman, a daughter of John and Mary Jane
Huffman, who were pioneer settlers in that
part of Indiana.
Dr. and Mrs. Mather are members of the
Baptist Church. He also belonged to the
Beverly Country Club, the South Shore Coun-
try Club, the American Medical Association,
the Illinois State Medical Society, and to the
Englewood Medical Society.
The death of Dr. H. H. Mather occurred
March 11, 1938, in his seventy-eighth year.
For nearly half a century he was an out-
standing physician in Chicago, and his life
was also a strong civic influence for good.
His life was one of real service.
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HENRY HOWARD MATHER
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GEORGE H. McCAMMON
/^ eorge H. McCammon was born in Chi-
^-* cago, Illinois, December 20, 1865, a son
of Mark and Mary McCammon.
He attended public school in Chicago on
the west side of the city, where his family
resided, and continued there until his parents
moved to Aurora, following the havoc
wrought by the Chicago fire.
_ In Aurora, George McCammon obtained
his first job, that of selling newspapers. The
family later moved to St. Paul, and he soon
became interested in a real estate office there.
About the year 1890, Mr. McCammon
left St. Paul and came to Chicago, finally
locating here. He became engaged in the
railway supply business, first handling almost
exclusively the products of the Beall Shovel
Company of Alton, Illinois, and gradually
taking on new accounts, including the Hub-
bard Steel Company of Pittsburgh, the J. B.
Sipe Oil Company and a number of other
concerns. The products of these houses were
sold to the railway industries centered in Chi-
cago, and, as Chicago grew in industrial
strength and greatness, so did Mr. McCam-
mon's business, known here and throughout
the country as George H. McCammon, Rail-
way Supplies, develop and expand. His in-
tegrity and dependability were outstanding
forces behind his exceptional success.
Mr. McCammon never married. He was
a member of the Illinois Athletic Club, where
he lived for many years, and he also belonged
to the Chicago Athletic Club.
George H. McCammon passed away Oc-
tober 6, 1930, in his sixty-sixth year. For
many years he was a figure of much impor-
tance in the railway supply business here.
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GEORGE RUDOLPH MEYERCORD
George R. Meyercord was born at Wash-
ington Heights, Cook County, Illinois,
May 23, 1875, a son of Philip and Marie
Caroline (Seiff) Meyercord. He began his
education in public schools at St. Louis, Mis-
souri, and then went to Armour Institute of
Technology in Chicago.
Mr. Meyercord was married to Miss
Agnes Adams of Chicago, August 23, 1905.
Their children are Agnes Marie (Mrs. John
Dorian Curtis), Margaret Elizabeth (Mrs.
R. Jerome Dunne), George, Edward Ber-
nard, and Helen Meyercord (Mrs. Wesley
E. Gwatkin). There are eleven grand-
children.
In 1894 Mr. Meyercord started the
Meyercord Company, manufacturers of de-
calcomania transfer ornaments.
Later he also founded the Vitrolite Com-
pany with headquarters at Parkersburg, West
Virginia, and he continued as president of
that world-known concern until 1935.
Mr. Meyercord was also president of the
Haskelite Manufacturing Corporation, one
of the best-known firms in the plywood indus-
try in America.
He was head of the American Manufac-
turers' Foreign Credit Underwriters; a mem-
ber of the board of Managers of the
American Traffic League in New York; and
was a director of the Lithographers' National
Association, and of the Illinois Manufactur-
ers' Association, of which he was formerly
president.
He belonged to the Methodist Church, and
to the Chicago Athletic Association, Mid-Day
Club, Edgewater Golf Club, and to Bob
o'Link.
In February, 1940, the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers awarded him the title
"Modern Pioneer in recognition of distin-
guished achievement in the held of science
and invention which has advanced the Ameri-
can standard of living."
The death of George R. Meyercord came
February 22, 1941. His is one of the most
noteworthy careers in the history of business
in Chicago.
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WILLIAM P. MUNSELL
WILLIAM P. MUNSELL
TI/'illiam P. Munsell, compiler and edi-
» * tor of this and the other volumes of
Commemorative Biographies in the set,
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois
and of Some Notable Americans of the
Present Century, and A View of Prog-
ress in America was born in Dodge City,
Kansas, September 16, 1891. He was the
son of William Watkins Munsell and Ida
(Hamilton) Munsell. When he was an
infant the family moved to the Chicago area.
There he attended the public grade and high
schools. His college work was taken at the
University of Illinois, Urbana. He was mar-
ried June 29, 1927 at Riverside, a suburb of
Chicago, to Miss Ruth May Fuller, daughter
of Dr. Spencer S. Fuller and Marguerite
(Smith) Fuller. They have two children,
William Spencer Munsell, born January 15,
1930, and Natalie Hamilton Munsell, born
August 4, 1931.
During World War I William P. Munsell
was a Lieutenant and an instructor in fly-
ing in the Air Corps of the United States
Army. He was a member of the American
Legion Post No. 488 of Riverside, Illinois.
His death October 14, 1942, just before this
volume went to press, released him from
years of suffering brought on through this
service to his country. Of his ability to con-
tribute his services when his country needed
them, he always spoke with heartfelt grati-
tude.
William P. Munsell came naturally by his
interest in the publication of volumes setting
forth the lives of people who have contribut-
ed to the world's work, for he came from the
family of Munsells in Albany, New York
who for several generations held high rank
among publishers of genealogies. His father,
William Watkins Munsell, transferred his in-
terest in such publications to the Middle
West, and in 1875 established the Munsell
Publishing Company. William P. Munsell
was connected with this business for several
years, and carried it on after the death of his
father in 1919. From his mother he inherit-
ed two interests dominant in his life, — writ-
ing and religion, — for his mother was a writer
of no small repute, and his grandfather a
Methodist minister of the Central New York
Conference.
His keen interest and pioneer effort in dis-
seminating the finest thought in religion was
evidenced by his publication, at his own ex-
pense, of a weekly magazine in which was re-
printed in full a sermon by outstanding min-
isters of the country, — Protestant, Catholic
and Jewish. This he did because he felt so
many persons insolated from contacts with
great thinkers could thereby be benefited.
Later because this need was in part supplied
by the radio, and the issuance of annual vol-
umes of best sermons, the publication was
discontinued.
Mr. Munsell had a consuming faith that
values in the world, and especially in democ-
racies, are determined by the caliber of the
people who make up the world. He felt that
only through the recording of life values and
accomplishments can a period of history be
understood and a foundation be acquired for
building for the future. In the selection of
persons for inclusion in his various biographi-
cal publications, Mr. Munsell selected as wide
a cross section of types of accomplishments
as possible. Not infrequently he would go to
the head of a large firm to seek out the per-
son whom the firm recognized as "having
gone farthest" and made the greatest contri-
bution, both to the institution, and to his fel-
low workers. He also felt that character is
reflected in people's faces, and that since large
portraits are no longer a part of the equip-
ment of homes, clubs and institutions, there
is greater need for making available to pos-
terity in book form, engravings of the great
personages of the times.
William P. Munsell was a man of sterling
worth, who carried out in his own life the
ideals he held for others. His untimely pass-
ing has deprived not alone his family and
friends, but his unique field of business, of a
most valued associate and understanding con-
tributor.
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WILLIAM WATKINS MUNSELL
The late William Watkins Munsell,
banker, historian and publisher, was
born in the village of Rose, New York,
October 25, 1850. His parents were Gavin
Lawson Munsell and Lydia (Watkins) Mun-
sell, both of whom were pioneer residents in
that section of New York, and both of whom
were fine, strong people of staunch Christian
character.
The Munsell family has an interesting
history as reviewed in the volume "A
Genealogy of the Munsell Family in
America," published by Joel Munsell's Sons
at Albany, New York in 1884. "The family
records date back to Sir Phillip de Maunsell,
who came from Normandy to England, one
of the companions of William the Conqueror,
and on whom was bestowed the manor of
Oxwiche, in Glamorganshire. His grandson,
Sir John Maunsell, was constituted Lord
Chief Justice of England in the time of
Henry III." Other records indicate that the
first of that family to locate in America came
about the year 1621.
The boyhood of William Watkins Munsell
was lived on a farm, and he attended schools
in that vicinity. In his later young manhood
he taught school for a time. Then he became
interested in the nursery business.
It was about a half century ago that he
became a country banker at Naples, New
York.
He was married October 4, 1876, to Miss
Florence L. Soule, a daughter of William G.
Soule and Nancy Marilla (Shaw) Soule of
Savannah, New York. Florence L. Soule
was born in December, 1852, and died May
19, 1880. There were two sons born to
William W. Munsell and Florence Soule
Munsell: Wilbert Watkins Munsell, born at
Naples, New York, April 3, 1878; and
Frederick Soule Munsell, born at Naples,
New York, August 13, 1879.
Wilbert Watkins Munsell, who is a phy-
sician by profession, is a Lieutenant-Com-
mander in the United States Navy and, since
February, 1932, has been on duty in Cincin-
nati, Ohio, during which time he has resided
in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He married Miss
Emma A. Doolittle of Chatsworth, Illinois,
September 23, 1903. Three children were
born to them: Mary Margaret Munsell;
William Watkins Munsell II; and Janette
Elizabeth Munsell.
Frederick Soule Munsell has been promi-
nently connected with the New York Life
Insurance Company for many years. At
present he is Inspector of Agencies in the
Atlantic Department, with headquarters in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was married
at St. Louis, Missouri, November 11, 1903,
to Miss Bertha Choteau Turner. They have
one son, Frederick Turner Munsell.
William W. Munsell, whose name heads
this review, was married July 12, 1882, to
Miss Ida May Hamilton, born December 25,
1860, a daughter of the Reverend Burdette
W. Hamilton and Carrie (Leet) Hamilton.
Her father was a Methodist minister in the
Central New York Conference for fifty years.
Of that marriage there were two children:
Fanny Hamilton Munsell, born at Brooklyn,
New York, June 13, 1884; and William P.
Munsell born at Dodge City, Kansas, Sep-
tember 16, 1891. Ida Hamilton Munsell
died, at her home in Fort Myers, Florida,
May 31, 1934.
Fanny Hamilton Munsell graduated with
high honors from the Art Institute of Chi-
cago, after which she achieved a distinguished
place as an artist. She was married, at Chi-
cago, Illinois, October 5, 1907, to Charles
E. Chambers, of Ottumwa, Iowa, who was
also a graduate of the Art Institute of Chi-
cago. Mr. Chambers was recognized as one
of the most noted illustrators in America. Mr.
and Mrs. Chambers established their resi-
dence at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, a suburb
of New York City. They have one son,
Richard Chambers. Fanny Munsell Cham-
bers died August 27, 1920.
William P. Munsell was associated with
his father in the business of the Munsell
Publishing Company at Chicago, Illinois, for
a number of years. He died October 14,
1942.
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To return to the personal history of Wil-
liam Watkins Munsell. He became identified
with the publishing business, first, when he
was about twenty-five years old. That con-
tinued to be his major business interest
throughout the rest of his life. However, it
should also be recorded that he left New
York state in the middle eighties to share
in the development of the state of Kansas.
For some years he lived at Dodge • City,
Kansas, and there he was associated with
the late Asa T. Soule in the growth of that
part of the country, in the handling of farm
lands, in the founding of a college, in rail-
road building to some extent, and in the
management of several private banks. He
moved from Kansas to Chicago, Illinois, in
1893 to resume his work as the president
of the Munsell Publishing Company. He
was the founder of the Munsell Publishing
Company in 1875. That business was incor-
porated in 1895. For nearly fifty years
William W. Munsell was active in the pub-
lication of volumes relating to history, in
the United States. As one example, to give
some idea of the value of his years of work
in that field, the writer believes it is true that
William W. Munsell was responsible for the
recording and preserving of more historical
and personal family records in Illinois than
any other individual has been, to the present
time.
William Watkins Munsell died October
25, 1919. The success of his life was largely
assured and made notable by the strength
and fineness of Christian character which
guided his every purpose and effort. He had
a great, kind, and understanding heart. The
historical volumes which he compiled and
published will live after him for generations
to come.
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OLIVER ROCKNEY NELSON
T?or nearly seventy years, the late Oliver
■*■ R. Nelson had been a resident of Illinois.
He was born at Voss, Norway, on January
15, 1849, a son of Nels Olson Rockney and
Anna Sonve, both natives of Norway. In
Norway the family name Rockney is spelled
Rokne. The family came to America to estab-
lish a new home, when the son was three years
old, and located in Chicago. Here the father
died the following year. The family then
moved to Queen Anne Prairie, near Wood-
stock, Illinois, traveling by ox-team; and the
mother married again.
Oliver R. Nelson went to school near this
home until his mother died when he was
twelve years old. He was living on his step-
father's farm at the outbreak of the Civil
War. When he was only sixteen years old he
and a friend of his walked into the nearest
recruiting station and enlisted for service.
When his stepfather heard this news he was
highly displeased, because of young Nelson's
extreme youth; so he took the necessary meas-
ures to cancel his enlistment. The step-
father then allowed him to attend school for
two winters.
In his seventeenth year he ran away, his
whole capital at the time being sixty-five cents.
He worked on a farm at McHenry and went
to school as opportunity offered. Later he
came to Chicago where he worked at various
jobs until he went to Southern Mississippi.
After working on the levees there for a while,
he journeyed up to the great pine forests in
the north, where he spent two winters work-
ing in logging camps.
He returned to Chicago just before the
Great Fire in 1871, and went to work for
Wright & Lawther, linseed oil manufacturers.
This firm became the Wright & Hills Linseed
Oil Company, of which concern Mr. Nelson
was made superintendent. After a short
time he was elected vice-president and so con-
tinued. A large share of the gratifying suc-
cess attained by this business came through
Mr. Nelson's hard work, judgment and ex-
perience. In 1900 the business was sold to
the American Linseed Oil Company. Mr.
Nelson remained with this concern as an ex-
ecutive for a few months. Then he retired
from active commercial life.
On May 6, 1880, Oliver R. Nelson was
married at Woodstock, Illinois, to Miss Julia
Marie Solveson. Their married life together
was long and most happy. After Mr. Nel-
son's retirement from business in 1901,
he and Mrs. Nelson traveled extensively
throughout Europe and America. Their resi-
dence was maintained in Chicago after their
marriage; and they also greatly enjoyed their
summer home at Squirrel Lake, near Minoc-
qua, Wisconsin.
Oliver R. Nelson was called from this life
on September 14, 1922. He began life as a
poor boy with comparatively very meager
opportunity to reach success. His career, just
closed, is a fine inspiration and example and
his memory is entitled to sincere respect.
His wife survived him until her death
March 29, 1935, in her eighty-second year.
Her life was filled with kindliness and use-
fulness, and was a blessing to many people.
She had a great and understanding heart and
her charities, during her lifetime, were of
large extent and were wisely administered. At
the time of her death, her will gave large be-
quests to the following institutions: The
Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home in
Edison Park, Chicago, Illinois; the Children's
Home on Seminary Avenue in Woodstock,
Illinois; the Norwegian Lutheran Bethesda
Home in Chicago, Illinois; the Illinois Chil-
dren's Home and Aid Society; the Home for
Destitute Crippled Children of Chicago, Il-
linois; the Evangelical Lutheran Home Find-
ing Society of Illinois; to several children's
homes in Voss and in Skien, Norway, the
towns where Mr. Nelson lived as a boy, and
to other institutions.
Mrs. Nelson was a fine, strong Christian
woman, and her life represents a great deal
of good accomplished.
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WILLIAM LINCOLN NOBLE
WILLIAM LINCOLN NOBLE
^R. William L. Noble was born at Can-
^ ton, New York, December 23, 1860, a
son of William and Phoebe (Grant) Noble.
He attended public schools and St. Lawrence
University at Canton, New York, and got
his Master of Science degree there in 1885.
He went west to Chicago, Illinois, that same
year and there he entered Rush Medical
College where he received his degree of Doc-
tor of Medicine in 1888.
Following a term as interne he became
connected with the work of the Illinois Eye
and Ear Infirmary. He continued to be iden-
tified with that institution for over forty
years, rendering a service of great value.
He was chief of staff until about 1930. His
last public service there was in securing the
appropriations for the site and the new build-
ing of the Illinois Eye and Ear Charitable
Infirmary.
He was professor of Ophthalmology at
the Illinois Post Graduate Medical School;
and he was clinical ophthalmologist, a director
and secretary of the West Side Hospital.
Dr. Noble became recognized as one of
Chicago's most able men in the field of dis-
eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. He
had a large private practice.
Dr. Noble was, for many years, a trustee
of the University of Illinois and was president
of the Board of Trustees there in 1923-25.
There is now a dormitory at the University
named in his honor.
In association with Dr. W. A. Evans and
several others, Dr. Noble did much in pre-
paring and in securing the passing of the
present medical practice licensing act in Illi-
nois. He also did much in organizing the
medical profession of Illinois for service in
the first World War.
He received the honorary degree of LL.D.
from St. Lawrence University.
Dr. Noble was married November 1, 1899,
at Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Marian Holden,'
a daughter of Henry N. and Jane (Perkins)
Holden. Her father was a lumber dealer in
early Chicago, having come to that city in
1856. Dr. and Mrs. Noble have two sons
and a daughter, William Holden Noble
Henry Holden Noble, and Jane Holden
Noble.
Dr. Noble was president of the Illinois
State Medical Society in 1916-17. He was
a member of the Congregational Church,
and he also belonged to the University Club,
of Evanston, and to the Chicago Athletic
Association.
The death of Dr. William L. Noble came
in his seventy- fourth year, on October 14,
1934. He was one of the distinguished men
of his profession in Illinois.
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JOHN JOSEPH O'HERON
John Joseph O'Heron, born February 29,
1859, at 602 Jefferson Street, Chicago,
Illinois, lived in this city all his life. He
was the son of James and Elinore O'Heron,
who came to this country from Wexford
County, Ireland, in the year 1849. Mr.
O'Heron attended Jesuit Brothers School, on
Morgan Street, but at the tender age of
twelve circumstances in those pioneer days
selected him for a father's aid. A horse and
a single wagon were his tools. In the year
1880, at the age of twenty-one, he embarked
in the drayage business for himself, possess-
ing still one horse and a wagon. From this
humble beginning (Mr. O'Heron's genius and
constructive ability) developed a cartage busi-
ness that became probably the largest owned
and directed by a single individual in Chicago,
if not in the world.
In 1919 Mr. O'Heron retired from the
cartage business and his vast equipment was,
in its entirety, taken over by the American
Railway Express Company.
In addition to the cartage business, Mr.
O'Heron was numbered among the large con-
structors and contractors in the United States.
In 1903 the John J. O'Heron Company was
formed, in association with Frederick Mc-
Isaac and T. Frank Quilty.
The business was devoted to engineering
construction and design. During the later
years the firm confined itself to heavy rail-
road construction. A partial list of the
principal works constructed by the John J.
O'Heron Company follows:
The Lake View in-take crib, foot of Mont-
rose Boulevard and Lake Michigan.
Louisville Approach, New Albany and Jef-
fersonville Railway, also the passenger sta-
tion. This was a steel elevated structure, ap-
proximately one mile in length, including what
was up to that date the heaviest girder manu-
factured and erected in this country.
Louisville and Nashville Railway Com-
pany's office building at Louisville, Kentucky.
Two rock tunnels for the City of Chicago,
totaling 3,000 feet, also two clay tunnels un-
der the Chicago River.
Chicago & North Western Railroad track
elevation, along Austin Avenue, between Hal-
sted and Ashland Avenue, Chicago.
Kansas City Terminal: All work outside of
the station proper, including sixteen viaducts.
Track elevation, Illinois Central Railway
Company, Seventy-ninth to One Hundred and
Twenty-third streets, through Pullman and
Kensington, Chicago, Illinois.
Okaw Viaduct: Four track railway bridge,
with 100 foot arches and long approaches, to-
taling over 2,100 feet. This bridge was the
largest structure of its kind erected in the en-
tire world during the year 1917.
Track elevation, Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, Panhandle branch, Chicago, Illi-
nois.
Burton's Bridge: Near Crystal Lake, Illi-
nois, five spans through arch structure, eighty-
foot arches.
Various sewers and purification systems,
notably those for the Government at Fort
Benjamin Harrison and Fort Sheridan, Illi-
nois.
Franklin Street Bridge, Michigan City, In-
diana, 100 foot span, longest single-leaf bas-
cule bridge built up to this date.
Oklahoma Subway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Seawall and Yacht Harbor, at Green Lake,
Wisconsin.
Track Elevation, Chicago & Western In-
diana Railway Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Railway Bridge in Black Hills, near Lead-
ville, South Dakota.
Morgan Street Bridge, Rockford Illinois,
1,000 feet long.
In 1898 Mr. O'Heron married Miss Mary
Frances White and to them .were born two
children: John and Miriam, Miriam still sur-
viving. He was left a widower about four
years later.
In 1907 Mr. O'Heron married Miss Mae
Cavanagh of Chicago, and to them were born
four children: Elinore, Ruth, Dorothea and
John.
In 1919 Mr. O'Heron retired from busi-
ness, and up to his death on April 1, 1921, his
time and attention were devoted to his family
and his large Chicago real estate holdings.
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JAMES AUGUSTUS OSTROM
JAMES AUGUSTUS OSTROM
Tames Augustus Ostrom was born in
J Brooklyn, New York, July 20, 1863, a
son of James Augustus Ostrom and Mary
Eliza (Edwards) Ostrom. The family, on
both sides, has a background of distinguished
history. The family name of old aristocratic
Holland Dutch origin, was, originally, Van
Osteroom. It was changed to Ostrom in
America in 1635. The Edwards family is
a notable one in early Illinois history, includ-
ing Ninian Edwards, great uncle of Mr.
Ostrom, who was the first governor of the
Colony of Illinois and second governor of
the territory and the State of Illinois. The
city of Edwardsville is named for the family.
James Augustus Ostrom, the son, was edu-
cated in public schools in Brooklyn, New
York. Then he went to work as office boy
for the banking firm of Fiske, Hatch & Com-
pany on Wall Street in New York City.
When he grew older he became connected
with the Lombard Investment Company as
their sales representative in their Western
territory. He became recognized as an un-
usually well-versed and able man in matters
of finance.
It was about 1890 that he was called to
become assistant treasurer of the G. H. Ham-
mond Packing Company. Some time later he
was made treasurer of that concern, and he
filled that important office for a number of
years.
When the firm of Field, Glore, Ward &
Company was founded, Mr. Ostrom went
with that organization for a time. Then he
was with Brown, Shipley & Company. About
that time Mr. Ostrom retired from active
business because of failing health.
James Augustus Ostrom was married No-
vember 1, 1898, in Brooklyn, New York, to
Mrs. Cyrus Porter Smith, nee Augusta Wicks
Babcock, widow of Cyrus Porter Smith. Mr.
and Mrs. Ostrom's long married life to-
gether, a period of about forty years, was
one of closest companionship and mutual
devotion.
Mr. Ostrom attended St. Paul's Episcopal
Church. He will be especially remembered
for his fine singing voice. He was a member
of the Apollo Club of New York and of
Chicago; and he also was a veteran member
of the Chicago Athletic Association, and a
charter member of the South Shore Country
Club. He formerly belonged to the Home-
wood Golf Club.
The death of Mr. Ostrom occurred Janu-
ary 20, 1938, in his seventy-fifth year. By
nature he was precise and accurate in all
things. He was unusually well-read and pos-
sessed a great fund of general information.
We have altogether too few men of his
strength of character, courtly manners and
understanding. He will be remembered by a
host of friends with honor and true affection.
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ALFRED WALLACE OWEN
TVyT ajor A. Wallace Owen was born on
IV J. prince Edward Island, Canada, March
18, 1875, a son of Alfred Wallace Owen and
Jessie (Ross) Owen. His father was con-
nected with the government fisheries depart-
ment at Ottawa.
Major Owen, as a boy, attended schools
in Ottawa, Canada. Then he went west and
joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police,
after which he spent some time in the Yukon
region active in gold mining. From there he
went to Edmonton, Alberta, and became
connected with the real estate business, until
1914, when he went into the Canadian Army
for service in the first World War.
He was commissioned as Lieutenant in the
Fifty-first Battalion, Canadian Infantry, later
being sent as a replacement officer to the
Forty-ninth Battalion, joining them in France.
In recognition of his services, he was pro-
moted to Captain and then to Major.
Subsequently, he was invalided home. He
was then placed in command of the Western
Division of the British Canadian Recruiting
Mission with headquarters at Chicago,
Illinois.
Returning to active duty he was placed as
second in command of the 260th Rifle Bat-
talion which went to aid General Kolchek in
Siberia, later returning to Chicago in June
1919.
Major Owen was married August 11,
1917, at Salter's Point, Massachusetts, to
Miss Edith Penton Rogers, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kendall Rogers, Jr.,
of Chicago. Mention of Edward Kendall
Rogers, both Junior and Senior, appears else-
where in this series of volumes. The Rogers
family have been identified with the history
of Chicago since 1835.
Major and Mrs. Owen have an only child,
A. Wallace Owen, III, who is a Flight-Lieu-
tenant serving with the Royal Canadian Air
Force. The family home is in Chicago,
Illinois.
Major A. Wallace Owen succumbed to a
long illness August 25, 1941. He was held
in exceptionally high regard.
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CHARLES WELLINGTON PARDRIDGE
/^harles W. Pardridge was born in
^ Oneida, New York, June 15, 1841, a
son of Anson and Amanda (Fields) Pard-
ridge. His education was obtained in the
public schools. He began his business career
when a small boy as clerk in the dry goods
store of C. Rive & Co., of Lyons, New York.
He later worked in Buffalo, New York, and
from 1861 to 1870 conducted an extensive"
dry goods business in that city with his
brother, E. Pardridge, under the firm name
of C. W. & E. Pardridge.
It was in 1870 that he came to Chicago, a
year prior to the great Chicago fire, and
started to carve out a career here for him-
self. Thenceforward his life and enterprises
were blended with the growth of this city.
He, with his brother, founded C. W. & E.
Pardridge's main store and later founded the
Boston Store, which they conducted for many
years. Later he established the dry goods
house of Hillman's, of which he was presi-
dent, treasurer, and a director, and he was
actively identified with the business until the
time of his death.
He accumulated large real estate holdings,
and for a number of years devoted much time
to the development and improvement of his
property.
Mr. Pardridge was twice married, first to
Theresa Marsland, of Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, and after her death to Helen M.
Bowen, of St. Augustine, Florida, who is also
deceased. By his first marriage there were
three sons and two daughters, namely,
Charles A., Edward W., Eva, Albert T. and
May.
For years Mr. Pardridge was at the head
of and managed large business interests, and
in every way he proved his superior executive
judgment. He had unusual public spirit
and was proud of the city in which much of
his activities and mature manhood were
passed.
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WILDER AUSTIN PICKARD
WILDER A. PlCKARD was born in Sun
Prairie, Wisconsin, January 12, 1859,
a son of William and Emma (Yerxa)
Pickard. The family is one long established
in America, dating back to 1634 in the his-
tory of this country.
Wilder Pickard went to school only until
he was sixteen years old; then he became self-
supporting. His first work was selling sub-
scription books.
In 1889 he went into business for himself
as a manufacturers' agent representing, in
Chicago and surrounding territory, a number
of out-of-town manufacturers.
In 1893 he became deeply interested in
the production and sale of fine handpainted
china. Soon thereafter he established a studio
at Edgerton, Wisconsin, and engaged a corps
of young women artists from the Art Insti-
tute of Chicago to decorate chinaware under
his direction. The excellent products of this
studio became known and much appreciated
in many large cities throughout the nation.
In 1905 Mr. Pickard built the present
Pickard Studios in the Ravenswood section
of Chicago. They were noteworthy for their
architectural excellence, as well as for serv-
ing the business purposes for which they were
erected. Subsequently a factory was estab-
lished at Antioch, Illinois, for the manufac-
ture of quality china.
The Pickard Studios became unquestion-
ably one of the best known and most highly
regarded institutions of this kind in America.
Their decorated chinaware is produced by
artists trained in the great art centers of the
World, and Pickard china has been sold for
many years in the most representative stores
in America.
Wilder Pickard, as time passed, earned an
exceptional reputation for business ability,
unquestioned integrity, and for the excellence
of the choice chinaware produced under his
guidance.
He was formerly a large importer of fine
china. Now, after years of experimentation,
expense and effort, Pickard Studios produce
for themselves some of the choicest china
bodies ever known. These are the basis on
which, today, the famous Pickard dinner-
ware, and other pieces, are prepared.
With the change in times, tastes and
fashions, the decorating of dinnerware has
been developed by Pickard Studios to stand-
ards never surpassed. Pickard Studios are
especially noted for the all-over gold china-
ware they produce. The etching of china is
also one of their distinguished specialties.
The trademark which Pickard china bears is
the crest of the Pickard family coat-of-arms.
Factory facilities of Pickard, Incorporated,
at Antioch, Illinois, are being doubled in size
and capacity, under the direction of Austin
Pickard, who follows his father as president
of the business.
Wilder A. Pickard was married December
26, 1895 to Miss Minnie V. Flood of Chi-
cago, Illinois. They have two sons and a
daughter: Willam John Pickard; Henry Aus-
tin Pickard; and Dorothy Pickard Piatt. The
family home is at 214 Greenwood Boulevard,
Evanston, Illinois.
The death of Wilder A. Pickard came
May 27, 1939. In every aspect of his life
he proved himself to be a man of exceptional
worth and character.
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CARL MATTHIAS POHL, Sr.
CARL MATTHIAS POHL, Sr.
T^\r. Carl Matthias Pohl, Sr., was born
*-** in Sweden, December 10, 1879, a son
of August and Dorothea Pohl. He came to
America when he was a small boy. His edu-
cation was begun in the grade and high
schools at Chicago, Illinois. Then he deter-
mined to take up the study of medicine and
surgery. He went to medical school at Bos-
ton, Massachusetts, for three years, then he
returned to Chicago and entered Rush Medi-
cal College. He was graduated with his
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1903.
Later he took post-graduate courses at Co-
lumbia University in New York and also
did special hospital work. He did further
post-graduate work at Cook County Hospital
in Chicago.
For a time Dr. Pohl was associated in
practice with a Dr. Rice who was a specialist
in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.
He also taught at Jenner Medical College
for five years.
Dr. Pohl established his own practice in
1904, in Austin, a part of Chicago, and he
was successful in the general practice of
medicine and surgery there throughout the
rest of his life.
During the first World War, Dr. Pohl
volunteered and served through to the com-
pletion of the war as captain in the Medical
Corps of the United States Army.
Dr. Pohl did a great deal of surgery and
became recognized as one of the finest sur-
geons here. He was on the staff in surgery
at the West Suburban Hospital, and he was
President of the Aux Plaines Society. Out of
the kindness of his heart he did a great deal
of charitable work.
Dr. Pohl was married on April 26, 1905
in Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Agnes Flodin,
a daughter of Claes and Emma (Larson)
Flodin. Dr. and Mrs. Pohl have a son and
a daughter, Dr. Carl Matthias Pohl, Jr.,
and Adele Pohl (Mrs. D. G. Heurlin).
There are two grandchildren, Carl Matthias
Pohl III and Patricia Pohl.
Dr. and Mrs. Pohl have long been devoted
members of the Mission Covenant Church
of Austin. They have both been active and
very helpful in the affairs of that church.
Dr. Pohl was chairman of their Board of
Trustees and was President of the Building
Fund through which the present church edifice
was built. Mrs. Pohl is President of the
Central District of the Covenant Women's
Auxiliary of America. She is also a charter
member of the North End Women's Club.
The death of Dr. Carl Matthias Pohl, Sr.,
took place in Chicago, June 3, 1938. His life
was an honor to his profession.
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FRANK WILLIAM POMEROY
T^rank W. Pomeroy was born in Becket,
-*• Massachusetts, February 9, 1861, a son of
Sylvester Clark and Elizabeth (Ashwell)
Pomeroy. His parents were fine, Christian
people.
The Pomeroy family is an old one in the
history of England, and also an old one in
America, one of its members being one of the
founders of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Frank W. Pomeroy was educated in
Becket, and, upon completing his studies in a
select school, he came to Illinois in 1880 when
nineteen years of age. In July of that year
he entered the employ of Marshall Field &
Co. and was continuously associated with that
great business institution for nearly forty
years.
His first employment was in the packing
room, and, as time went on, he was promoted
to various positions, until he was finally put
in charge of the entire rug and furniture
wholesale departments of Marshall Field
& Co. At the height of his career he was
one of the largest buyers of rugs in this
country.
On November 10, 1886, Mr. Pomeroy
was married to Miss Agnes Ulin Blush of
Middlefield, Massachusetts, a daughter of
William Durant and Mary Waters (Pren-
tice) Blush.
Mr. Pomeroy was a member of the Evans-
ton Men's Club, and attended the Congrega-
tional Church of Evanston.
Mr. Pomeroy possessed a strong, conserva-
tive character and was a splendid example
of a man rising from the ranks to a place of
high trust and responsibility. He was one of
the best authorities on choice rugs in Amer-
ica, and was one of the ablest and most
esteemed men in the entire great organization
of Marshall Field & Co.
Frank W. Pomeroy passed away on May
22, 1924.
In 1931, following Mr. Pomeroy's ex-
pressed wish, Mrs. Pomeroy had a memorial
mausoleum built at Becket, Massachusetts.
It is constructed of Barre granite. It carries
the inscription "In memory of Sylvester C.
and Elizabeth A. Pomeroy, by their son,
Frank W. Pomeroy." This memorial is a
gift from Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Pomeroy
to the people of Becket, and their friends
and neighbors, for their temporary use, with-
out any cost, as occasion requires.
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PHILIP SIDNEY POST
The life and work of the late Philip
Sidney Post was of wide consequence.
His achievements in the field of industrial
relationships, as well as in the legal profes-
sion, stand to his credit as a man of real
importance to his times.
He was born at Vienna, Austria-Hungary,
November 10, 1869, the eldest son of Gen.
Philip Sidney Post and Cornelia Almira
(Post) Post, who were both citizens of the
United States, residing temporarily abroad.
The elder Philip Sidney Post was a distin-
guished officer in the Civil War. He subse-
quently served as United States consul and
consul-general to Austria-Hungary (from
1866 to 1879) and still later he was a mem-
ber of Congress from the State of Illinois.
It was in Vienna that the younger Philip
Sidney Post received his earlier schooling.
He accompanied his parents when they re-
turned to the United States at the close of
General Post's consular service. In 1887 he
was graduated from Knox College at Gales-
burg, Illinois, with the degree of Bachelor
of Arts. For some time thereafter he was
engaged in newspaper work at Washington,
D. C, and he later officiated as private secre-
tary to his father and to the commissioner
of patents at Washington. Throughout this
period he was studying law. In 1892 he com-
pleted his course at the National Law School
at Washington. He was admitted to the
Illinois bar that same year.
In 1894 Mr. Post began the practice of
law in the office of Judge L. C. Collins of
Chicago. In 1896, upon the death of his
father, he removed to Galesburg, where,
until 1907, he was engaged in practice, for a
time being in partnership with Congressman
George W. Prince. From 1898 to 1902 he
served as probate judge of Knox County,
and from 1903 to 1907 he was master-in-
chancery of the Knox County Circuit Court.
During his term as county judge the juvenile
court of Knox County was established, the
administration of which received his devoted
attention. In addition to the activities
already mentioned Judge Post was interested
in several newspapers, and he participated
actively in all affairs of public consequence
in his part of the state.
In 1907 Judge Post came back to Chicago
to become general attorney for the Inter-
national Harvester Company, and in May,
1919, he was elected vice-president of the
company, with special executive duties includ-
ing full charge of the company's public rela-
tions. He took a leading part in framing
the Harvester Company's industrial councils
plan which was adopted in March, 1919. In
this connection we quote from a speech of
Mr. Post: "We feel that their hope (the
president and board of directors of the Inter-
national Harvester Company) is the building
of a permanent industrial enterprise, which,
as the years go by, will be recognized as the
finest type of American corporation, a cor-
poration private in name and management,
but awake to every public obligation, and ren-
dering to mankind a world-wide public
service."
Judge Post was, for many years, and up
to the time of his death, a trustee of Knox
College. He took a very deep interest in
that institution's affairs, giving his keenest
attention to its problems. After his death,
the Chicago Knox Club, alumni of Knox
College, and other friends, raised a fund of
$100,000 to establish at Knox College a
memorial department in political science, to
be known as the Philip Sidney Post Memorial
Department.
Judge Post was a member of the Loyal
Legion. He belonged to the American and
Illinois Bar associations; to the University
Club; Hamilton Club; City Club; Union
League Club; the Law Club; and to the old
Sunset Club, which he formerly served as
secretary. His fraternity at Knox College
was Phi Gamma Delta. He was a Knight-
Templar Mason. He was always interested
in the work of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel, and
for years was a member of its advisory com-
mittee.
He was a member of the Winnetka Con-
gregational Church, which is one of the out-
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standing community churches in this country.
Judge Post wrote with unusual strength
and discernment on economic and political
questions and the problems of industrial rela-
tions. He was a contributor to The Outlook
and other periodicals. In politics he was a
Republican.
August 27, 1902, Philip Sidney Post was
married to Janet Greig, formerly dean of
women at Knox College, and a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Greig of Oneida, Illi-
nois. Mrs. Post survives her distinguished
husband, as do his sister, Mrs. James C.
Simpson of Galesburg, and his brother,
Major William S. Post of Los Angeles, Cali-
fornia. Mr. and Mrs. Post made their home
in Winnetka, a north shore suburb of Chi-
cago. Mr. Post was much interested in city
planning and was chairman of the Winnetka
Plan Commission.
Philip Sidney Post died at his home in
Winnetka on June 27, 1920. President
Harold F. McCormick of the International
Harvester Company wrote, at the time of
Mr. Post's death:
"The passing of Mr. Post brings to the
Harvester organization a sense of loss too
sharp to be measured in words. Yet, out of
his long service in the law department, and
his all-too-brief service as vice-president, we
gratefully receive and cherish three distinct
inheritances — his many definite contributions
to the company's development and progress,
the deep impression of a rare personality
upon his associates, and the strong influence
he exerted in our behalf in his contacts with
outside people and interests. In all respects,
business and personal, his was a record and
example that we who carry on the work shall
do well to follow.
"The sincere desire for truth that guided
his active, eager mind brought him quickly
to the solution of problems and made his
viewpoint readily comprehensible to his co-
workers. Being intellectually four-square
with himself, imbued with the impersonal
spirit of justice, his counsels were always clear
and convincing, and added to these attributes
were a tolerance that never forgot to be
kind, a good humor so unfailing and a charm
of manner so engaging that he was always
assured of earnest attention.
"Those who sat with him about the execu-
tive council table will especially miss the thor-
oughness and sense of responsibility that
marked all his researches and the presenta-
tion of their results. They will remember
how broadly human his sympathies were,
and how strong his faith that a sure path to
both industrial and national peace and prog-
ress can be found through a quickened and
deepened mutuality of understanding and
effort.
"All of us who knew him will remember
and honor him as a man of highest and finest
type — able, companionable, joyous and true."
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
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CLARE OSBORNE REED
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CHARLES BERT REED
CHARLES BERT REED
CLARE OSBORNE REED
r^\R. Charles B. Reed was born at Har-
-*—' vard, Illinois, March 1, 1866, a son of
Hiram V. and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Reed.
He began his college education at the
University of Michigan where he was from
1882 to 1884; then he entered Rush Medical
College at Chicago. He was graduated there
in 1887 with degree of Doctor of Medicine.
With the following years, Dr. Reed
achieved one of the most distinguished careers
in his profession in Chicago, which may be
summarized as follows: He had a large pri-
vate practice. He was obstetrician to Wesley
Hospital, and associate professor of obstetrics
at Northwestern University Medical School.
He was a Fellow of the American College
of Surgeons. He was president of the Illinois
State Medical Society in 1935—36; president
of the Chicago Medical Society 1929-30;
treasurer of the Chicago Gynecological So-
ciety in 1904-09, and 1910 to 1929, and
president in 1909—10. He was a valued mem-
ber of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago,
and of the American Board of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
He was president of the Campfire Club
of Chicago, 1911—13; and of the Chicago
Literary Club 1914-15.
He wrote many articles that were of ex-
ceptional value, and he was the author of a
number of volumes, both in regard to his pro-
fession and also in connection with his other
interests. Among them are: "Quiz Manual
of Histology," "Text Book of Obstetrics for
Nurses," "What Every Expectant Mother
Should Know," "Operative Obstetrics for
the Manikin," "Masters of the Wilderness,"
"The First Great Canadian," "Four Way
Lodge," "Curse of Cahawba," "Eleanor of
Aquitaine" and "The True Tale of Lady
Godiva."
Dr. Charles B. Reed died September 3,
1940. He was one of the most notable men
of his profession in America.
Dr. Reed was married on June 23, 1892
to Miss Clare Osborne. Doctor and Mrs.
Reed have two daughters, Isabel Reed Goetz
and Betty Reed Schlueter.
Clare Osborne Reed was born at Plymouth,
Indiana, a daughter of John G. Osborne and
Marilda (Boyd) Osborne. Her father was
a prominent jurist in Indiana. Clare Osborne
graduated from public schools and then en-
tered the Chicago Musical College. After
receiving her degree of Bachelor of Arts she
continued there with post-graduate work. She
received highest honors, both as an under-
graduate and as a post-graduate student.
Then she went abroad and studied in Europe
for several years, under Theodore Leschetiz-
sky in Vienna, and under Oscar Raif in Ber-
lin, also studying composition under Dr. Karl
Nawratil. Returning to Chicago she contin-
ued her notable career.
In 1901 Clare Osborne founded the Co-
lumbia School of Music, and she continued
as its president and artist-director until 1930.
The world-wide reputation which the Colum-
bia School of Music attained may be largely
credited to Clare Osborne Reed.
She is the author of "Constructive Har-
mony and Improvization." She is a member
of the Society of American Musicians, of
The National Association of Teachers of
Music, an honorary member of the Lake
View Musical Society and, is also a member
of the Chicago Women's Club, the Cordon
Club (charter member), the Woman's City
Club, and of the Mu Iota Chapter of Mu Phi
Epsilon. The Clare Osborne Reed Associa-
tion was formed by her friends and admirers
in her honor. Mrs. Reed is one of Chicago's
distinguished women.
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HENRY CUNNINGHAM REW
TTenry Cunningham Rew was born in
-*- •*- Maumee, Lucas County, Ohio, April 2,
1839, a son of Frederick Augustus Rew and
Sarah Adams Stow Rew. The records of the
Rew family ancestry in this country date back
to John Rew who came to New England in
1686.
Henry C. Rew became self-supporting
when he was fourteen years old. At that
time he worked as an assistant to the post-
master at Newark, New York. Then he be-
came cashier for Esbon Blackmas, a grain
and produce buyer.
In 1858 he moved to Albany, New York,
and became connected with the office of
William P. Irwin.
In 1866 he established his own business,
as a grain dealer and commission merchant,
in Buffalo, New York.
It was in 1868 that Mr. Rew came to
Chicago, Illinois. He became associated
with the firm of D. W. Irwin and Company,
one of the best known early-day members of
the Chicago Board of Trade. Much of the
remarkable success of that business, in subse-
quent years, can be credited to the ability and
judgment of Henry C. Rew. Mr. Rew re-
tired from the grain trade in 1880.
He had great faith in Chicago's future,
and he became the owner of much valuable
real estate in the city.
About 1878 he first became interested in
improvements of the new art of manufactur-
ing carbureted water gas for use in lighting
and heating. After a great deal of develop-
ment work his first entirely successful car-
bureted water gas apparatus was built at
Mattoon, Illinois, in 1892. This was followed
by the construction and operation of a large
commercial plant built for the Cicero Gas
Company, in the Chicago area. This plant
supplied high-power illuminating and heating
gas to Oak Park, Austin, Ridgland, River
Forest, La Vergne, Berwyn and Riverside.
Other successful plants were built.
Many United States patents were issued to
Mr. Rew. Among them were patents for a
glass house, and for an airplane utilizing the
principle of the gyroscope. He was versatile
and ahead of his time, and his foresight has
since been verified.
In the later years of his life, Mr. Rew
travelled extensively throughout the world.
He published for his own family a remark-
able volume, "Wonders of the World
Abroad," recording the highlights of his
travels.
One of his greatest pleasures was play-
ing golf. He was an excellent golfer and was
winner of a number of trophies here and
abroad.
Mr. Rew was a member of the Chicago
Board of Trade, the Chicago Stock Ex-
change, the Union League Club of Chicago,
the Calumet Club, the Washington Park
Club, and of other organizations, here and
elsewhere. He was a governing member of
the Art Institute of Chicago, and a life mem-
ber of the Chicago Athletic Association.
He had a fine knowledge and appreciation
of art and of poetry, and his home was a
treasure house of lovely things.
In memory of his father and mother Mr.
Rew gave to Newark, New York, the
Newark Free Public Library which, in its
character and operation, is a fine institution
of its type. One of its outstanding services
is that, at Mr. Rew's specific request, it is
always open on Sunday afternoons for study
and reading.
Mr. Rew was married, at Greenbush
Heights, New York, June 24, 1863, to Miss
Theresa Mehetabel Irwin. They became the
parents of three daughters and one son:
Anna Frances Rew (Mrs. Alfred H. Gross) ;
Irwin Rew; Evelyn Rew (deceased) ; and
Helen Josephine Rew (deceased). The fam-
ily home in early Chicago, was for many
years at 2619 Prairie Avenue. They later
moved to Evanston, Illinois, and erected a
lovely home at 1128 Ridge Avenue. Mrs.
Rew died at this home in Evanston, Novem-
ber 6, 1900.
Henry C. Rew died, at San Remo, Italy,
February 13, 1912. He was among the
notable men in the earlier history of Chicago.
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HENRY CUNNINGHAM REW
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CHARLES EDWARD RINGLING
THE LATE Charles Edward Ringling was
born in the town of McGregor, Iowa,
on January 19, 1864. His parents were
August and Salome (Juliar) Ringling.
The family moved to Wisconsin when
Charles Ringling was a boy; and it was in
Wisconsin that he attended public school, at
Prairie du Chien and at Baraboo.
About the year 1882 Charles Ringling and
several of his brothers formed a small con-
cert company which they operated through
the winter seasons, in Wisconsin. In 1884
they started a wagon show which met with
deserved success and which toured the coun-
try throughout the summer seasons. This
business they enlarged from year to year.
By 1890 their show had outgrown wagon
transportation; so the required railroad
equipment was purchased and installed and,
from that time, Ringling Brothers Circus
traveled from town to town and city to city
by rail, and has become known to nearly
every man, woman and child in the entire
country.
The growth of Ringling Brothers Circus
has been remarkable. In 1908 the Brothers
bought the Barnum & Bailey Circus and until
1917 operated the two circuses separately. In
that year they were consolidated to form what
is literally the greatest show of its kind on
earth. At various times the Ringling brothers
also bought and absorbed the Sells Brothers
Circus, the Adam Forepaugh Circus, Buffalo
Bill's Wild West Show and other similar
well-known organizations.
The original brothers in the original owner-
ship and management of Ringling Brothers
Circus were Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles
and John Ringling. It is a very noteworthy
fact that throughout all the subsequent years
that these brothers controlled this vast or-
ganization they worked together in closest
harmony, for the mutual good, without any
contract or written agreement existing be-
tween them. Theirs was a splendid and rare
companionship. All matters of consequence
were always discussed between them and de-
cided upon in friendly agreement.
Much of the success that this great business
organization has achieved is credited to
Charles Ringling. He had a firm grasp of
detail. He was endowed with the ability to
see the whole of any important situation, to
consider it carefully; and his judgments were
remarkably correct and adequate.
On October 23, 1889, Charles Ringling
was married at Baraboo, Wisconsin, to Miss
Edith Conway, a daughter of Rev. W. E.
Conway, who was for many years a minister
of the West Wisconsin Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs.
Ringling have two children, Robert Edward
Ringling, and Hester Margaret Ringling
(Mrs. Charles Sanford).
The family's summer home is at Evans-
ton, Illinois, and their winter home is at
Sarasota, Florida.
Charles Ringling was the founder and
President of the Ringling Trust & Savings
Bank at Sarasota. He was the owner of
large tracts of land in Florida. He was presi-
dent of the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce.
For the past fifteen years he accomplished a
great deal for the development of Sarasota
County.
Mr. Ringling was a true lover of music.
He was a very fine violinist and he owned one
of the most famous violins in the world. He
was at all times a patron of everything good
in music.
The life of Charles E. Ringling came to
its close in his sixty-second year. He was
world-famous as a circus owner, for Ringling
Brothers Circus has been almost a national
institution for years and years. He was also
widely known as a financier. His friendships
extended throughout all America and abroad.
He was a thoroughly admirable man, of ex-
cellent character, very able, genial, unassum-
ing and kind. He possessed the spirit of
Divine Helpfulness for everyone in need. His
death on December 3, 1926, was a loss to
the people of the entire nation for his life
added much to the sum of knowledge and of
happiness in the world.
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RUSSELL DEAN ROBINSON
T^\r. Russell Dean Robinson was born in
*-^ Kansas City, Missouri, November 2,
1889, a son of George D. and Lulu Frances
(Dresser) Robinson. After graduating from
high school he enrolled at Colorado College
and studied there for a year; then he came
to Chicago and entered the College of Medi-
cine of the University of Illinois. He re-
ceived his degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1914, after which he was an interne at Cook
County Hospital in Chicago, 1914-16.
He was married in June 1916 to Anna
Elizabeth Isham, M.D., of Kearney, Ne-
braska. Since that time he and his wife were
associated in the practice of medicine and
surgery in Chicago. Their home and their
office have been maintained in Morgan Park
throughout all the years of their work to-
gether and they meant much to that neigh-
borhood and to communities adjoining. Dr.
Anna Robinson continues in practice there.
The Robinsons have two sons and one daugh-
ter, Russell Isham Robinson, Mary Frances
Robinson, and Richard Allan Robinson.
Dr. Russell D. Robinson was on the staff
at the Roseland Community Hospital and the
Hospital of the Little Company of Mary;
and he was physician to Morgan Park Acad-
emy. During the first World War he was
First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps of
the United States Army, 1917-19, serving
abroad.
He was a member of the Chicago Medical
Society, and was a councillor and a member
of the Medical policy commission. He also
belonged to the American Medical Associa-
tion, Illinois State Medical Society, Associa-
tion of American Railway Surgeons, Ameri-
can Legion, Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha
Kappa Kappa, and Kappa Sigma fraternities,
and to the Ridge Country Club and the
University Club.
Dr. Russell Dean Robinson died on August
5, 1936. His life meant a great deal to his
community.
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RUSSELL DEAN ROBINSON
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JULIUS ALBERT ROESCH, Jr.
JULIUS ALBERT ROESCH, JR.
J A. Roesch, Jr., was born in New York
• City on May 28, 1881, a son of Julius
Albert Roesch and Emma (Dennerlein)
Roesch.
Much of his boyhood was lived in Hart-
well, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati; then he
went to Detroit, Michigan, for several years,
coming to Chicago, Illinois, in 1893, during
the Columbian Exposition. Here he attended
the Greeley School and Lake View High
School.
He began his business career as a clerk
for the Spool Cotton Company. After six
months there he entered the employ of the
Western Electric Company. He remained
with them for eight years, building up a very
valuable experience.
In 1907 he first became identified with
the steel and metal business; and, in the
years that followed he became a leader of
national consequence in the industry.
In 1915 he was one of the organizers of
the Steel Sales Corporation. He was vice-
president of that concern until the death of
President A. D. Dorman. Then Mr. Roesch
was made president and filled that important
office as long as he lived.
Mr. Roesch was also a director of the Cop-
per Weld Steel Company of Pittsburgh and
of the Mercantile Trust and Savings Bank
of Chicago.
He was a valued member of the Chicago
Plan Commission, Chicago Association of
Commerce, Illinois Chamber of Commerce,
American Iron and Steel Institute, and of
the Society of Automotive Engineers. He
belonged to the Episcopal Church and to the
Masonic Fraternity.
He was also a member of the Chicago
Athletic Association, Chicago Yacht Club,
DeQuesne Club of Pittsburgh, the Engineers
Club of New York City, Bob o' Link of
Chicago, and the Minocqua Heights Country
Club of Minocqua, Wisconsin.
He was long a member and was a director
of the Riverside Golf Club at Riverside,
Illinois.
He was formerly president of the Illinois
Athletic Club of Chicago.
On September 8, 1902, Mr. Roesch mar-
ried Caroline Carr Wait. Their sons are
J. A. Roesch, III and John Lloyd Roesch.
On March 1, 1922, Mr. Roesch married
Elsie L. Leubner of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Their children are James Frederick Roesch
and Jane Ida Faye Roesch. The family resi-
dence is at 1105 Park Avenue, River Forest,
Illinois.
The death of J. A. Roesch, Jr., occurred
April 27, 1939, in his fifty-eighth year. His
was one of the most noteworthy careers in
the history of the steel industry in America.
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ALBERT MURDOCK RUSSELL
A lbert M. Russell was born in Oakfield,
■**■ Wisconsin, August 14, 1883, a son of
Willis Sherwood Russell and Estella Caroline
(Clark) Russell. He began his education in
public schools in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and
then attended Purdue University at Green-
castle, Indiana, until 1902. From there he
went to the University of Wisconsin, where
he remained until 1904.
In 1907 he located at Duluth, Minnesota,
where he was a successful dealer in auto-
mobile trucks.
From 1910 to 1913 he was Northwestern
Zone Manager for White Trucks at Minne-
apolis, Minnesota.
From 1913 to 1915 he was regional man-
ager of the Stearns-Knight Company with
headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio.
From 1915 to 1919 he was General Sales
Manager at Cleveland.
From 1915 to 1918 he also had charge of
the production of Rolls Royce airplane mo-
tors in America.
He was Retail Sales Manager for the
Packard Motor Car Company at Detroit,
Michigan from 1919 to 1921.
Then he became connected with the Pierce
Arrow Company of Buffalo, New York. He
began his work for that company as Zone
Manager; then was made successively assist-
ant general sales manager; assistant to the
Vice-President in charge of sales; branch man-
ager at Kansas City, Missouri; and then gen-
eral manager for the Company at Chicago,
Illinois.
He served as treasurer of the Illinois
Board for the Motor Vehicle Retailing Code
under the N.R.A.
He was a member of the Union League
Club of Chicago, and of the South Shore
Country Club.
Albert M. Russell was married July 29,
1907 to Miss Anna E. Davis of Oconto,
Wisconsin. They have a son, Albert Clark
Russell, and a daughter, Ann Caroline Rus-
sell (Mrs. Bernard Good). The family resi-
dence is in River Forest, Illinois.
Albert M. Russell died May 26, 1937.
He was one of the most representative men
in the entire great automotive industry.
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ALBERT MURDOCK RUSSELL
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ROBERT BRUCE SCOTT
ROBERT BRUCE SCOTT
T> ruce Scott was born at Kaneville, Kane
■^ County, Illinois, March 18, 1874, a son
of John Hugh Scott and Martha (Ostrander)
Scott.
He began his education in grade school in
Kaneville, then was graduated from West
Aurora High School. He attended the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin for two years, and then
entered the Wharton School of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1895.
He was admitted to the Illinois Bar in
1897, and he was engaged in the practice
of law, at Aurora, Illinois, until 1905. Then
he was made a member of the faculty at
the University of Wisconsin, and he was
professor of political science and of law
there when he left the University in
1911.
Mr. Scott began his long association with
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
back in 1900 when he served as local attor-
ney, at Aurora, in the firm of Hopkins and
Scott. His work as a lawyer had proven to
be of such value that, in 1911, he was made
general attorney of that road. He was made
general solicitor in 1917 and served as such
until 1924.
During the period of the first World War,
Mr. Scott was general solicitor for the United
States Railroad Administration.
In 1924 he was made general counsel and
a director of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad. From 1928 to 1937 he
was vice-president, general counsel and a
director of the road, then he was made spe-
cial counsel, continuing as vice-president and
a director. Since 1924 he was general counsel
and a director of all the Burlington Lines,
including the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, the Colorado and Southern Rail-
way Company, the Fort Worth and Denver
City Railway Company, and the Wichita
Valley Railway Company.
Mr. Scott was a valued member of the
American, Illinois, and Chicago Bar Associa-
tions, Sigma Chi and Phi Delta Phi frater-
nities, Chicago Club, University Club, Legal
Club, the Glen View Golf Club and other
organizations.
Mr. Scott married Alice Downing of Au-
rora, Illinois, April 21, 1897. They became
the parents of three daughters: Martha
Louise Scott, deceased, Janet D. Scott, and
Roberta Scott (Mrs. James Blair Cochran).
The family home has been in Evanston, Illi-
nois, for twenty years.
The death of Bruce Scott came in his
sixty-fifth year, on March 14, 1939. Much
railroad legislation affecting the operation
and development of the railroads in this
country today bears the stamp of his fore-
sight, his exceptional judgment and his fine
character. He was one of the really great
railroad lawyers in America.
PHILIP RAYMOND SHUMWAY
"Philip R. Shumway was born at Evans-
-*- ton, Illinois, January 31, 1868, a son of
Philip Bessom Shumway and Mary (Ray-
mond) Shumway. His father will be remem-
bered as an outstanding lawyer in early-day
Chicago, and as one of the builders of the
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railroad. He was
a Trustee of Northwestern University, as
was also his wife.
After preliminary schooling, Philip R.
Shumway entered Northwestern University
where he completed his full course and grad->
uated, as president of his class, in 1889.
Following his graduation he went to work
for the Deering Harvester Company.
About 1900 Mr. Shumway and Mr. Eu-
gene Kimbark founded The Paper Mills
Company, which was developed under their
guidance to become one of the leading deal-
ers in fine papers in the United States. Mr.
Shumway was president of The Paper Mills
Company from the time of its organization
until his death.
Mr. Shumway was married April 3, 1902
to Miss Harriet Hoblit, a daughter of Co-
lumbus Dighton Hoblit, pioneer resident and
banker of Canton, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs.
Shumway have two daughters and three sons:
Mary, deceased; Philip Bessom Shumway;
Thyrza (Mrs. Robt. L. Elliott, Jr.); and
twins, Peter and John Brookfield Shumway.
The family home has been in Evanston, Illi-
nois, for many years.
Mr. Shumway was a Trustee of North-
western University and was also treasurer
of the University. He and his family have
long been deeply interested in Evanston Hos-
pital, which Mr. Shumway served as treasurer
for three decades.
Mr. Shumway belonged to the First Meth-
odist Church of Evanston. He was also a
member of the Chicago Club, Caxton Club,
University Club, Glen View Club and On-
wentsia Club.
The death of Philip R. Shumway came, in
his sixty-eighth year, on December 7, 1935.
He was a man of exceptional worth.
82
WILLIAM THOMAS SMITH
WILLIAM THOMAS SMITH
TI/"illiam T. Smith of Chicago, for
™ » many years an executive of Marshall
Field and Company, was born at Goderich,
Ontario, Canada. When he was a young
man he came to the United States and lo-
cated at Chicago, Illinois. There he began
the long and pleasant association with Mar-
shall Field and Company that was to con-
tinue as long as Mr. Smith was active in
business. He began his work for Marshall
Field and Company, as a comparatively
young man, in a position of minor impor-
tance. His work was of such value that he
was advanced from one to another responsi-
bility of increased importance. Eventually he
was chosen to become one of the principal for-
eign buyers for Marshall Field and Company;
and he earned recognition as one of the most
valuable men in the entire Marshall Field
organization. He was long a notable and
familiar figure in the Men's Store of Mar-
shall Field and Company. His distinguished
appearance and his delightful and impressive
personality will be missed.
In every aspect of his life, William T.
Smith was a remarkably fine man. He was a
valued member of St. James' Episcopal
Church which he served in an official capacity
and of which he was, formerly, Superintend-
ent of the Church School. He was also a
Trustee, for many years, of the First Meth-
odist Church of Chicago. He loved his
Church and he devoted his life and his
example to it.
William T Smith was married Septem-
ber 6, 1931 to Mrs. Daniel W. Davis. She
was formerly, Eleanor Mathias, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Mathias, whose
distinguished Illinois family is recorded in
Volume II of this publication.
Mr. Smith belonged to the Chicago Ath-
letic Association, the Hamilton Club, and to
the South Shore Country Club.
William T. Smith died February 3, 1938.
We doubt if there was a man in Chicago
who, because of his excellence and personal
worth, was more beloved than he.
83
CLYDE MASON SNOW
Professor Clyde M. Snow, of Oak Park,
-■■ Illinois, was born in Earlville, Illinois,
March 9, 1868, a son of Simeon E. and
Arabella (Warren) Snow. The parents were
early settlers in Earlville.
Clyde M. Snow as a boy went to public
schools in Earlville, and then to military
school at Oxford, Maryland. Returning to
Earlville he was later made Postmaster, on
appointment by President Cleveland. Sub-
sequently he resigned that office and bought
a drug store in Earlville. This he soon sold,
and he went to Chicago where he entered
the Illinois College of Pharmacy. He grad-
uated in 1902. His work as a student there
had been so outstanding that he was asked,
upon his graduation, to become a member
of the Faculty. He was connected with his
alma mater, which later became a part of the
University of Illinois, from that time on
throughout the rest of his active life.
In 1920 he was made Professor of Phar-
macy there. He continued as head of that
department until his retirement in 1936. He
was then made professor emeritus.
From 1918 to 1926 he was also Lecturer
at the College of Medicine.
Professor Snow was the author of "Arith-
metic in Pharmacy" and "Essentials in Phar-
macy," both of which volumes are standard
authority in their field.
Professor Snow was married February 22,
1911 to Miss Elsie Bowen, a daughter of
Dan W. Bowen.
Professor Snow attended the Universalist
Church. He also belonged to the Masons
and to the Kappa Psi fraternity. He was an
honorary member of the Delta Kappa Sigma
fraternity. He was a member of the Ameri-
can Pharmaceutical Association.
The death of Professor Snow took place
August 5, 1939, in Oak Park, Illinois.
He was sincerely beloved and respected.
In his profession he will be remembered by
many people with true veneration as "the
grand old man of pharmacy."
84
CLYDE MASON SNOW
UMvERSIir OF ILLINOIS
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THOMAS ALEXANDER SOMERVILLE
Thomas A. Somerville was born in
Brooklyn, New York, July 26, 1856, a
son of James Somerville and Eliza (Me-
harry) Somerville. His school training was
very limited, but, by study and observation
throughout his later years, he achieved an
exceptionally well developed mind and under-
standing.
As a little boy his first work was helping a
local minister look after his horse and in
being useful around the rectory. Then he
went to work in a store in the neighborhood.
From there he became office boy for a com-
pany on Wall Street in New York City.
When he was seventeen years old he
answered an advertisement by Hunter, Wal-
ton and Company for an office boy. He was
chosen for the job above a number of other
applicants. Thus began his long and gratify-
ing connection with that old-established firm.
He began work for Hunter, Walton and
Company for three-and-a-half dollars a week.
From that beginning he earned promotions
from time to time; and, before many years
had passed, he was made a partner in the
business. That was in 1883 following the
death of Captain Joel D. Hunter, one of the
original partners.
In 1898 Mr. Somerville came West and
established an office of Hunter, Walton and
Company at Chicago, Illinois. He continued
to be the head of the Chicago office through-
out the rest of his active career. Mr. Somer-
ville and the firm of Hunter, Walton and
Company became known and respected
throughout this entire part of the country
as outstanding wholesale dealers in butter,
eggs and cheese.
Mr. Somerville was also vice-president of
the Central Cold Storage Company.
During the period of the World War Mr.
Somerville was asked by Herbert Hoover
to serve with the Federal Food Administra-
tion in connection with the purchase and
distribution of dairy products. This Mr.
Somerville did, gladly, and was one of the
Dollar a Year Men.
The marriage of Mr. Somerville to Miss
Selina Osborne Snape daughter of JohnSnape
and Ann (Gilbert) Snape took place July 26,
1880. Mrs. Somerville passed away Octo-
ber 19, 1942. Two daughters and one son,
Esther Somerville, John S. Somerville and
Helen Somerville survive. The family home
is in Evanston, Illinois.
Mr. Somerville was a member of the First
Congregational Church of Evanston. He
also belonged to the Union League Club of
Chicago, the University Club of Evanston,
and to the Westmoreland Country Club.
The death of Mr. Somerville came just
before he had reached his seventy-fourth
birthday and fiftieth wedding anniversary,
July 1, 1930. He had been connected with
Hunter, Walton and Company for fifty-five
years, and he was senior partner in the firm
at the time of his retirement in 1928. No
man in his field of work has accomplished
more or earned a greater measure of regard
than Mr. Somerville.
85
WILLIAM WARBURTON KNOX SPARROW
TITilliam W. K. Sparrow was born in
* * Moneymore, County Tyrone, Ireland,
December 30, 1879. His parents were the
Reverend William Sparrow and Cecelia Jane
(Knox) Sparrow.
His boyhood was lived in Ireland and in
England, where he went to school. His rail-
road career began in February, 1896, when
he went to work in the engineering depart-
ment of the Belfast and Northern Counties
Railway Company.
Two years later, following a desire for
adventure, as he once described it, he left
Ireland for South Africa. There he went to
work for the Cape Government Railways.
He was made an associate member of the
Institute of Civil Engineers in 1908. That
same year he and his wife left Capetown,
Union of South Africa, sailing on their wed-
ding day for the United States.
In early 1909 Mr. Sparrow began his first
work here, in the drafting department of
Waddell and Harrington, consulting engi-
neers, at Kansas City, Missouri, at fifty dol-
lars a month.
In July 1912 he became associated with
H. Van Unwerth, consulting engineer, in
Kansas City.
When the Missouri Public Utilities Com-
mission was formed, Mr. Sparrow became
assistant engineer, and later, assistant chief
engineer of that organization.
In April 1916 he re-entered Railway
service as valuation engineer for the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, with head-
quarters in Chicago.
In September 1918 he became corporate
chief engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul Railway. In June 1920 he was
appointed assistant to the president of the
road. In November he was placed in charge
of the road's Accounting Department. In
December 1921 the Real Estate Depart-
ment was also placed in his charge.
In 1927 Mr. Sparrow was elected vice-
president of the road, also continuing his
accounting, real estate and valuation super-
vision.
In January 1929 he was made vice-
president and a director of the Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway
Company, then organized. He was the
officer in charge of finance, accounting, and
real estate, for the trustees representing that
company, throughout the later years of his
life.
He was a member of the Railway Account-
ing Officers Association, Western Railway
Club, Electric Club of Chicago, the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Glen View Club,
and a life member of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
Mr. Sparrow is survived by his wife, Mary
Batchelor Sparrow, and by two daughters
and one son: Jessie Knox Sparrow (Mrs.
George L. Green) ; Eileen Knox Sparrow
(Mrs. Elmer B. Rich, III); and Joseph
Knox Sparrow.
W. W. K. Sparrow died November 7,
1939. He was a man of outstanding ability
and sound judgment. He was devoted to his
home and family, keenly appreciative of
music, art, and literature, generous to the
unfortunate, and loyal to his subordinates
and employers. He was efficient and con-
scientious in all his activities and had the re-
spect of all who knew him.
86
WILLIAM WARIU RTOX KNOX SPARROW
UNIVERSITV Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
S. BRUCE STAFFORD
S. BRUCE STAFFORD
Bruce Stafford was born on a farm in
Clark County, Missouri, June 29, 1865,
a son of William Stafford and Charlotte
(Hill) Stafford. He went to country school
near his home and then to college at Edina,
Missouri.
He taught country school for a time and
then went to work in a hardware store which
he and a brother owned, at Wymore,
Nebraska.
While he was still a young man he located
at Chicago, Illinois, in 1887 and became
active in the live stock commission business
in partnership with his brothers, John E.
Stafford, Trusten Stafford, and Calvin Staf-
ford. The firm of Stafford Brothers, live
stock commission merchants, earned a place
among the leaders in the live stock industry
in this part of the country. The business
continues to the present time after more than
fifty years.
Bruce Stafford was also president of the
Chicago Live Stock Exchange.
Bruce Stafford was married November 20,
1888 at Kahoka, Missouri, to Miss Mary L.
Bostic, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W.
Bostic. For a number of years they have
maintained their lovely home in Beverly
Hills, Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Stafford was a Mason, Knight Tem-
plar, and Shriner.
The death of Bruce Stafford occurred in
March, 1937. He had many friends, not
only because of his integrity and ability in
business, but also because he was such a
kindly, benevolent and public-spirited man.
He was a leader in the live stock industry
at Chicago, Illinois, for many years.
87
WILLIAM GUILFORD STEARNS
William G. Stearns, M.D., one of the
best-known neurologists and psychia-
trists in America, was born in Lamartine,
Wisconsin, February 11, 1865, a son of
William Stearns and Elsie (Randall) Stearns.
He graduated from Northwestern Uni-
versity Medical School at Chicago, Illinois,
in 1893. Then he was an interne at St. Luke's
Hospital for a year.
He was appointed acting physician at the
Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at
Kankakee, Illinois. He was then made path-
ologist there, and after two years was made
medical superintendent of that institution.
From 1894 to 1898 he served as professor
of pathology, anatomy and general pathol-
ogy at Northwestern Dental School. In 1898
he also served as chairman of the section on
insanity of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction. From 1898 to
1900 he was assistant professor of Mental
Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence at
Northwestern University Medical School.
From 1900 to 1904 he was medical super-
intendent of the Oakwood and Lake Side
Sanatoria at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He
was also lecturer in Neurology at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons from 1900
to 1902.
He was a member of the Medical Advis-
ory Board as a consultant in Neuropsy-
chiatry, during the World War.
He was medical director of the North
Shore Health Resort at Winnetka, Illinois.
Dr. Stearns was always active and very
helpful in his large private practice. The
good that he accomplished is beyond compute.
He was a member of the American
Medico-Psychiatric Association, the Central
Neuropsychiatric Association, the Chicago
Medical Society, Illinois State Medical So-
ciety, Chicago Neurologic Society, Chicago
Association for the Prevention and Relief of
Heart Disease, the American Medical Asso-
ciation, the Chicago Institute of Medicine,
the American Congress of Internal Medicine,
the Nu Sigma Nu, Psi Omega and Alpha
Omega Alpha fraternities, the Physicians'
Club of Chicago and was a fellow of the
American College of Physicians.
Dr. Stearns was married June 24, 1897
to Miss Grace Whitney, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William M. Whitney. Both Dr.
Stearns' family and Mrs. Stearns' family are
old and noteworthy ones, dating back in the
history of this country to about 1635.
The death of Dr. William G. Stearns
occurred in his seventy-second year, on Janu-
ary 11, 1937. He was one of the most dis-
tinguished men of his profession in America.
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NELS A. STRAND
Nels A. Strand was born at Grenna,
Sweden, February 6, 1877, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Strand. He came to the
United States when he was about eighteen
years old, locating at Chicago, Illinois.
From early boyhood, Nels A. Strand was
an exceptionally fine mechanic. He worked
for a time for the Deering Harvester Com-
pany in Chicago. Then he worked for
Frank Betz until Mr. Betz moved his plant to
Hammond, Indiana.
Then Mr. Strand established his own busi-
ness, manufacturing flexible shafts and allied
equipment. He built his own factory in the
Ravenswood district about 1915. He took
his brother, O. V. Strand, into business with
him and formed N. A. Strand & Company
of which Nels A. Strand was principal owner
and president as long as he lived.
Oscar V. Strand died October 12, 1941.
N. A. Strand and Company are widely
known as the manufacturers of flexible shafts
and flexible shaft machines and accessories.
Their products are in use in nearly all lines
of industry. Strand flexible shafts have many
years of practical experience behind them.
Strand is the originator of the three-speed
countershaft drive for flexible shafts and of
many useful attachments. The Company has
stocks in all the larger cities in the United
States and in some foreign countries.
Nels A. Strand was married in 1904 to
Miss Anna Wall. Mr. and Mrs. Strand have
two sons and two daughters, Grace, Hazel,
Herbert (deceased) and Arthur Strand.
Throughout all of their married life, Mr.
and Mrs. Strand were very devoted to each
other. Her encouragement and help were a
real part of the success that Mr. Strand
earned.
The death of Nels A. Strand came on
April 10, 1940. He was a person of finest
character, always kindly, understanding,
generous and unselfish. He possessed great
natural mechanical ability and he became a
leader in his field of manufacture in America.
89
WADE LIVINGSTON STREET
IITade Livingston Street, a leader in
» * the food industry in America, is now
living retired, on his very pleasant estate
"Bird Villa" in Coral Gables, Florida.
Mr. Street was born in Lisbon, Ohio, a son
of Samuel and Clara Belle (Livingston)
Street. His is a fine old Quaker family. His
father graduated in an early day from a
Quaker college in Philadelphia, and then took
post-graduate work at Harvard University.
He subsequently became a noted newspaper
writer with headquarters at Washington,
D. C.
When Wade Street was two years old his
father died. As a boy he attended public
schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Chi-
cago, Illinois. Then he went to Culver
Military Academy and later to Dartmouth
College.
He began his business career, under the
guidance of his uncle, Jefferson Livingston, in
the famous old T. A. Snider Preserve Com-
pany in Cincinnati. Snider's preserves, es-
pecially Snider's Catsup, have been known,
practically throughout the world, for many
years. Wade Street, as time passed, became
Vice-President and General Manager of the
T. A. Snider Preserve Company, and, in that
capacity, was recognized as one of the most
able men in the food industry. His company
had eighteen factories in operation.
Subsequently the T. A. Snider Preserve
Company became a part of the larger organi-
zation, the New York Canners, Incorporated.
At the time of the merger, Wade Street was
made second Vice-President. He later be-
came Vice-President and General Manager of
the New York Canners, Incorporated. The
New York Canners, Incorporated, at that
time, operated thirty-nine large plants, and
had an average annual output of twenty-five
million cases.
Mr. Street was also President of the
National Canners' Association, and was
President of the Indiana Canners' Associa-
tion.
He was President of the Livingston Can-
ning Machine Company. A number of types
of machines, which have become essential in
the canning industry, were originated and de-
veloped by that company, under Mr. Street's
direction.
Mr. Street married Miss Claudia Winfree
Bass of Atlanta, Georgia. Hers is an old
and distinguished family in the history of
Atlanta, dating back to that period when
Atlanta was a small town, then known as
Marthasville.
Mr. Street is a Mason, and also was a
member of the Illinois Athletic Club, and of
the Union League Club of Chicago. He was
also a Major in the United States Artillery
Service.
Mr. Street retired from active business
some years ago because of failing eyesight.
His record shows that he was one of the
most effective leaders in the canning industry
in America.
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WADE LIVINGSTON STREET
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
URBANA
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T^ ugene N. Strom, who died recently at
-*-v his home on Golden Beach, Miami,
Florida, was a well-known Chicago manufac-
turer. He had retired from active business
about 1925 and, in more recent years, had
been enjoying his lovely home in Florida.
His boyhood was lived in Chicago. Fol-
lowing his early schooling, he went to the
University of Michigan, and later graduated
from Princeton University. He was a mem-
ber of the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa
fraternities.
His father, Axel A. Strom, was the
founder of the Strom Manufacturing Com-
pany in Chicago. That business later became
a part of the Pettibone-Milliken Co., which
concern was known throughout the United
States in the railway supply industry. Eugene
Strom went to work for the Pettibone-
Millikin Company when he graduated from
Princeton University in 1906.
He was also vice-president of the Strom
Ball Bearing Company, which he and his
father founded. He was a member of the
Chicago Stock Exchange and of the Chicago
Athletic Association.
He rendered to Chicago a distinct service,
through his work as a member and treas-
urer of the executive committee of Lincoln
Park.
For a number of winters past, Mr. and
Mrs. Strom were winter visitors in Florida.
In 1930 they built their very lovely residence
on Golden Beach, near Miami. It should
also be stated here that Mr. Strom accom-
plished a great deal to make Golden Beach
one of the most beautiful Ocean Front resi-
dential areas in all of Florida. No man has
had a more heartfelt interest in that com-
munity than had Mr. Strom.
Eugene N. Strom died Jan. 10, 1937. He
is survived by his wife, Meta F. Strom.
91
POLEMUS HAMILTON SWIFT
Polemus H. Swift, D.D., was born at
Palmyra, Wisconsin, October 24, 1853, a
son of Rev. Nathaniel Swift, a pioneer min-
ister in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the
founder of many churches throughout that
area.
P. H. Swift lived most of his boyhood in
Minnesota, then he entered Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois, and grad-
uated with high honors. Later he also stud-
ied at Garrett Biblical Institute and at Syra-
cuse University. He held the degrees of A.B.,
B.D., A.M., Ph.D. and D.D.
Dr. Swift's first pastorate was at Blue
Island, Illinois, back in 1882. Following this
he was pastor at Centenary Church in Chi-
cago and he built Court Street Church in
Rockford, Illinois, where he preached to
capacity audiences. Later he was pastor of
many important churches in Rock River Con-
ference and was pastor at Madison Street
Church of Baltimore, Maryland, before his
last pastorate in River Forest, Illinois, from
1915 to 1918.
He was chosen to become District Super-
intendent of the Chicago Southern District,
and filled that office from 1918 to 1923,
when he retired upon reaching the age of
seventy years.
He was a trustee of Garrett Biblical Insti-
tute from 1890 to 1905.
He was a delegate to the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1896, 1900, 1904, 1908 and 1920.
In 1901 he was a delegate to the Great
Conference held in London, England, and
he was a delegate to the first World's Sunday
School Conference in London in 1889.
Dr. Swift was a valued member of the
American Institute of Philosophy, the Chi-
cago Academy of Science, and of the Delta
Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities,
and the Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Among his published works are "Star in
the West," "The Magnetism of the Cross"
and "Gospel Cheer Messages."
On November 20, 1883 at Keeseville,
New York, Dr. Swift married Miss Olive L.
Boynton. They have a son and a daughter,
George Hamilton Swift, and Mildred Swift
(Mrs. Richard H. Manny). There are two
daughters, Marian Ella Swift and Rosamond
B. Swift, both of whom died in infancy.
There are four granddaughters, two great-
granddaughters and one great-grandson.
George H. Swift, who was one of the
ablest men in the entire organization of
General Motors Acceptance Corporation of
which he was an executive, died April 17,
1935.
Dr. Swift was chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Rock River Conference
from 1923 to 1925. All in all, he served in
the ministry for forty-two years and in the
Rock River Conference for thirty-five years.
Dr. Polemus H. Swift died April 14,
1935. His life constitutes a really great serv-
ice to the people of Illinois, to young people
in whom he had a deep interest, to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and to religious
education throughout the nation.
92
POLEMUS HAMILTON SWIFT
UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS
URBANA
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JOHN NORTON THORPE
JOHN NORTON THORPE
Dr. John N. Thorpe was born in Chi-
cago, Illinois, on June 27, 1875, a son
of John and Wilhelmina (Ersted) Thorpe.
He attended public schools in Chicago, and
then was graduated from the University of
Illinois at Urbana. From there he entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in
Chicago; and he was graduated from that
distinguished institution in 1904.
He began his private practice on the South
Side in Chicago, at Forty-eighth Street and
Ashland Avenue. After some time he built
his own office building, at Fifty-first street
and Marshfield Avenue, and he maintained
his offices there throughout the rest of his
life, a period of about thirty-three years. His
work was largely devoted to general prac-
tice, and he also served on the staff of the
German Deaconess Hospital for fifteen years.
When the United States entered the
World War, Dr. Thorpe volunteered for
service. He was attached to the 312th Sani-
tary Train in the Eighty-seventh Division,
and he saw much service abroad. He rose to
the rank of Major because of the exceptional
value of his service.
On February 28, 1910, Dr. Thorpe mar-
ried Miss Charlotte Handy, a daughter of
John and Margaret Handy. Dr. and Mrs.
Thorpe enjoyed a wonderful companionship.
Among other interests, they greatly enjoyed
travelling, and they journeyed together
throughout most of the World. They spent
six months in Africa; they travelled around
the globe; they made two trips throughout
the South American continent.
The death of Dr. John N. Thorpe oc-
curred February 8, 1938 in his sixty-third
year. He left behind him a splendid record
of usefulness to the community and its fami-
lies, which he served well and devotedly for
so many years.
93
EDWARD J. TOBIN
Edward J. Tobin was born in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, January 8, 1871, a son of
Patrick and Mary (Finan) Tobin. Mr. and
Mrs. Patrick Tobin were pioneers in that
part of Wisconsin and were highly regarded
in their community.
Edward J. Tobin attended public school,
and then, at the age of sixteen, he began to
teach, in Kenosha. He attended Valparaiso
University one summer, afterward continuing
his teaching. About 1893 he came to Chicago
where he taught in the Bremen School in
Tinley Park.
He then studied at Normal School in Chi-
cago, and after completing his work there
was made a teacher in the Chicago public
schools. He soon became a principal, for his
work as an educator, even then, was winning
recognition.
He served his first principalship in the
Hayes school; and then he went to the Healy
school in 1906, where he remained until the
year 1910, when he was elected County Su-
perintendent of Schools.
Edward J. Tobin held that very important
office for twenty-three years. Regardless of
party victories or defeats he was reelected to
office.
Perhaps the most progressive contribution
of Mr. Tobin's long and very useful career
was his idea to link the school and the home
by means of the Achievement Plan. This was
a distinctly new step in educational programs,
but since its beginning, nearly twenty years
before his death, he spread the basic ideas
of this work throughout the United States.
With this plan he accomplished a most out-
standing service in redirecting educational
activities; redirecting them with these ideals
as an ultimate goal. . . . "The dignity of
labor, the beauty of common things, the chal-
lenge of responsibility, and the training for
citizenship."
In other fields of education, too, Mr.
Tobin made his influence markedly felt. He
reorganized the country school system of
Cook County, and today both the method of
direction and supervision and the buildings
themselves are copied, not only throughout
this state and country but throughout the
world.
Another important forward step in the
improvement of the Cook County Schools
was his inauguration of new rules govern-
ing the hiring of teachers. Only Normal
School and University graduates were con-
sidered, and a minimum salary of one hun-
dred dollars a month was fixed. As far as
was in his power to do it, he eliminated all
political influence from the school system.
To show the eminent place he held in the
schools of Cook County, and to give a better
understanding of the scope of his work, we
quote from some of the comments written of
him shortly after his death:
Harriet E. Fulner of the Rural Nursing
Service of Cook County says of him: "...
we begin to realize how much we owe him
for the steady and substantial growth of our
health program in the schools of Cook
County ... he left behind a record of a
fine and useful life which thousands of boys
and girls, who were under his care, will
emulate. There can be no finer monument
to his memory."
One of his associates pays a beautiful trib-
ute to him and to his work in these words :
"Few men have impressed themselves upon
the period in which they live more than did
Mr. Tobin. He was a student of human
nature, a person of infinite tact and sound
judgment. He had that rarest of all quali-
ties— inspiration of leadership. . . . Mr.
Tobin's achievement work was outstanding.
In it he never lost sight of the fact that the
aim of the schools is the making of good
citizens. . . . We know it was possible for
him to develop his new principles of educa-
tion in the Cook County schools, because of
his sincerity, his unbounded love for children,
and his tireless capacity for work."
Dr. W. A. Evans, prominent physician of
Chicago, states: "... His conception of
education as a training for the duties and
responsibilities of life was exceptionally
broad. ... As a result of his administrative
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skill, his fellowship and social interest, and
his enthusiasm and energy, the children who
passed through the Cook County schools dur-
ing the years they were under his control will
be better citizens."
Another well-deserved tribute to Mr.
Tobin says: "He kept above the fog of petty
affairs and lived in accordance with those
principles which elevate the plane of human
endeavor. . . . He had a vivid conception of
the problems that confront people, as well as
a sympathetic understanding of their trou-
bles. . . . To meet Mr. Tobin was to re-
spect him, to deal with him was to be treated
honestly, to work with him was an inspira-
tion, and to know him was to love him."
Edward J. Tobin was married July 24,
1907, to Miss Belle Padden, daughter of
James and Bridget Padden, of Chicago. Two
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tobin:
Ruth Tobin Heffernan, and Edward J. Tobin,
Jr. There are three grandchildren: Joan,
Carol, and Edward David Heffernan. Mr.
Tobin greatly loved his family, and his home
was the source of his greatest contentment
and happiness.
He belonged to the St. Cajetan Roman
Catholic Church.
Edward J. Tobin passed away March 2,
1933, in his sixty-third year. In 1940 the
excellent, new Edward J. Tobin School was
named and dedicated in his honor. Few men
in the history of the development of educa-
tion in the United States can equal the place
he held, and none could be more deeply and
sincerely admired and loved.
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SILAS ALFRED TUCKER
Silas A. Tucker was born in Chicago,
Illinois, February 20, 1887, a son of
Silas Addison Tucker and Hannah (Painter)
Tucker.
He attended public schools in Chicago and
then entered the University of Chicago. He
gave up his studies there at the end of two
years so that he might accept an opportunity
to go to Alaska and the Yukon River Coun-
try in the employ of the North American
Transportation and Trading Company.
It was back in 1909 that he first became
connected with the Manhattan Rubber Com-
pany, working in their factory at Passaic,
New Jersey. The following year he became
a salesman for that company, with head-
quarters in Chicago. His work proved to
be of such value that by 1929 he was ap-
pointed central district manager for the
manufacturing division of his company. It
was that year that the company became a
part of Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. He con-
tinued to fill that important industrial post
for Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., throughout
the rest of his life.
Mr. Tucker was a valued member of the
Chicago Club, the Chicago Athletic Associa-
tion, the Skokie Country Club, the Alpha
Delta Phi fraternity, and of the Masons,
Evanston Commandery, No. 5 8, Knights
Templar.
He belonged to the Second Presbyterian
Church of Evanston, Illinois, which he served
devotedly as church treasurer and as a
Trustee.
He was a member of the Sons of the
American Revolution.
Mr. Tucker was married June 28, 1934,
in Evanston, Illinois, to Lydia Tracy, a
daughter of Alfred Tracy and Anna (Mar-
cus) Tracy. His first marriage was to
Marion A. Zimmerman on September 16,
1916. She died May 15, 1926.
The death of Silas A. Tucker occurred in
his fifty-second year, on April 14, 1938. He
is sincerely missed.
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A. MONTGOMERY WARD
MR. Ward was born at Chatham, New
Jersey, on February 17, 1843, a son
of Sylvester A. and Julia Ann Greene Ward.
He was a great-grandson of Captain Israel
Ward, and a namesake of his grandfather,
Aaron Montgomery Ward.
When he was nine years old the family
moved to Niles, Michigan, and here he went
to public school until he was fourteen. His
parents needed his help with the financial sup-
port of the family at this time, so he was
apprenticed to a trade. However, he pre-
ferred to get a job for himself; and he began
working in a stave factory, for twenty-five
cents a day.
Later he moved to St. Joseph, Michigan,
and worked in the general store there. He
started at a wage of $5 a month with board;
but, at the end of three years he was placed
in charge of the store at $100 a month and
board.
In 1865, Mr. Ward located in Chicago.
He worked for Field, Palmer & Leiter for
two years. Then he entered the wholesale
drygoods firm of Willis, Gregg & Brown,
after which he travelled for Walter M.
Smith & Company, of St. Louis. He soon
returned to Chicago and went with C. W.
Pardridge & Company.
Mr. Ward was married in Chicago, in
1872, to Miss Elizabeth J. Cobb. That same
year he and his brother-in-law, Mr. George
R. Thorne, founded the business now known
all over the world as Montgomery Ward &
Company. The idea they started with was to
develop an organization that could sell mer-
chandise, of nearly every sort, direct to the
consumer, eliminating the middleman. Theirs
was the first mail-order business. From this
beginning, when but one clerk was employed,
Montgomery Ward & Company has grown
into one of the largest industries in the world
and is saving millions of dollars annually to
the people with whom it trades. Mr. Ward
was president of the company from its
beginning in 1872, until his death in 1913,
although in 1901 he retired from active
management.
Further, Mr. Ward rendered Chicago a
very distinguished and permanent service
through the fight he waged for twenty years
to keep buildings, of all descriptions, out of
Grant Park. This involved litigation that
carried him four times to the Illinois Supreme
Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward for years maintained
their summer home, LaBelle Knoll, at Ocono-
mowoc, Wisconsin, and here Mr. Ward in-
dulged his fondness for fine horses.
Through his charities, which were many
and which were thoughtfully administered,
and through his endowments to hospitals and
other institutions, Mr. Ward did a vast
amount of good. His death on December 7,
1913, closed one of the most practical, useful
and helpful careers on record in America.
In 1923, Mrs. Ward gave to Northwest-
ern University, one of its principal buildings,
to be erected and presented as a memorial to
Mr. Ward. Later Mrs. Ward made North-
western University another gift of four mil-
lion dollars the proceeds of which are to be
used in securing and maintaining for the
A. Montgomery Ward Memorial Dental and
Medical School the finest faculty obtainable.
Mrs. Ward died July 26, 1926.
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LYMAN WARE
T"\r. Lyman Ware was born at Granville,
*~* Putman County, Illinois, November
11, 1841. His parents were Ralph and Lu-
anda A. (Clarke) Ware, who were among
the pioneers of Illinois, having settled in this
state in the early '30s.
Lyman Ware attended the University of
Michigan. During 1863-64 he served in the
Civil War, in the One Hundred and Thirty-
second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as hospital
steward. The experiences of the battle-
ground and the field hospital, terrible as they
were at that time, did not turn him from his
determination to perfect his knowledge of
medicine and to enter practice; on the other
hand, it probably strengthened his resolve.
Accordingly, he matriculated at the North-
western University and was graduated from
that institution in 1866 with the degree of
M. D. Later he entered the medical depart-
ment of the University of Pennsylvania and
in 1868 received his degree.
At the time Dr. Ware was a medical
student it was not lawful for medical colleges
in general to study anatomy by the dissecting
of the human body, and yet not to be well
acquainted with the intricacies of the human
organization was also a professional crime.
After Dr. Ware had entered into active prac-
tice he, in association with the late Dr. John
Woodward (then of the marine service,
U. S. A.) and the late Dr. Henry P. Merri-
man, were largely instrumental in securing the
passage of a law giving medical colleges facili-
ties and privileges in this connection not
before accorded them, which resulted in a
highly advanced knowledge and efficiency in
surgical practice.
In April, 1868, Dr. Ware established him-
self in the practice of his profession in Chi-
cago, and continued as a general practitioner,
confining himself to internal medicine until
1874, when he went abroad, where he re-
mained for about two years in special prepa-
ration for the treatment of diseases of the
eye, to which special practice he subsequently
devoted himself.
In June, 1877, in the city of Chicago, Dr.
Ware was married to Miss Elizabeth A.
Law, a daughter of Robert and Sarah
(Young) Law. Mention of Robert Law is
made elsewhere in this history. Dr. and Mrs.
Ware had three children: Hildegarde (Mrs.
William S. Warfield, III), Edith (Mrs.
Charles C. Shedd), and Elizabeth (Mrs.
Samuel J. Walker, Jr.). The family home
was at No. 4424 Drexel Boulevard until Dr.
Ware's death.
Mr. and Mrs. Warfield's children are:
William Warfield, IV, Lyman Ware War-
field, James Douglas Warfield, Richard War-
field and Hildegarde Warfield. Mr. and Mrs.
Walker's children are: Malcomb Walker and
Samuel J. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Shedd
have one daughter, Elizabeth Shedd, who is
named for Mrs. Ware.
As a man of enlightened understanding
and civic pride, Dr. Ware took an interest
in all worthy public movements. He was a
member of the American Medical Associa-
tion, the Illinois State Medical Society and
the Chicago Ophthalmological and Otological
Society. He translated, by permission, Dr.
Fred von Arlts' "Clinical Disease of the
Eye," which has proved most valuable in the
study and treatment of diseases of that organ.
The death of Dr. Ware, June 1, 1916,
brought to an end years of widely effectual
efforts. Through it all the largeness of his
work and the largeness of his heart were com-
mensurate.
Mrs. Lyman Ware survived her distin-
guished husband for nearly seventeen years.
Her death occurred May 10, 1933. She was
born in Galena, Illinois, February 10, 1854.
Her parents and their family moved to Chi-
cago and established their residence here be-
fore she was one year old; and she lived here
throughout all the rest of her long life, a
period of nearly eighty years. Everyone who
was privileged to be admitted to Mrs. Ware's
friendship will retain a very lovely remem-
brance of her, because in every relationship
of her life she was as fine as can be.
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JOHN MARTIN WESTERLIN
John Martin Westerlin was born in
Fjoros, Sweden, June 17, 1855, a son of
Nels A. and Beata (Jonson) Westerlin. His
family is one of distinguished lineage in
Sweden. His great, great grandfather was
perhaps the greatest mathematician Sweden
has ever had.
John M. Westerlin went to private school
in Sweden until 1868 when he was brought
to the United States. The rest of his boy-
hood was lived in Chicago, Illinois.
After that, with the passing of the years,
he became one of the foremost authorities
in the world in the refrigeration industry.
It is quite probable that, in his later life, he
knew more about refrigeration than any man
living.
From 1877 to 1889 he was superintendent
of the Hercules Iron Works in Chicago.
In 1890 he was one of the founders and
was made president of the Westerlin-Camp-
bell Company, manufacturers of refriger-
ating machinery, which became one of the
most highly regarded firms in its field in
America.
Mr. Westerlin was decorated, for his dis-
tinguished achievements, by the King of
Sweden.
Mr. Westerlin was also a director of the
John Morton Memorial Museum in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania.
He was a devoted member of the Lutheran
Church. He was truly religious and, in every
aspect of his life, he was a fine representative
of the Swedish people, as he was also a fine
American.
Mr. Westerlin was married first, on
October 4, 1880, to Augusta Anderson of
Eksjo, Sweden. She died leaving two sons,
George Arthur, and John Norman Westerlin,
deceased. On July 27, 1907 Mr. Westerlin
married Elsa Noren of Kalmar, Sweden.
The death of John M. Westerlin came,
just before he reached his eighty-fourth
birthday, June 10, 1939. He was a very ex-
ceptional man. In addition to being the dean
of the refrigeration industry in America, his
quiet kindliness and charity greatly endeared
him. Mr. Westerlin was known and honored
throughout the world.
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NELS WESTERLIN
Nels Westerlin was the father of John
Martin Westerlin, world-famous au-
thority on refrigeration, extended mention of
whom is made elsewhere in this volume.
Nels Westerlin was also one of the well
known and much respected early-day Swed-
ish residents of Chicago. He was born, Feb-
ruary 1, 1825, in Cubbe Garden, Fjoros,
Sweden, and there his boyhood was lived.
He came to the United States in 1867 and
settled at Chicago, Illinois. Four years later,
having established himself, he sent to Swe-
den for his wife and five children, who joined
him in Chicago in 1871. That same year the
family lost everything in the great Chicago
Fire.
In spite of their own losses, Mr. and Mrs.
Westerlin were helpful to others in making a
place again for themselves in early Chicago.
Mr. Westerlin had exceptional mechanical
ability, and for many years he was associated
with the pioneer firm, the Hapgood Plow
Manufacturing Company. Later he helped
to operate their plant at Louisville, Kentucky.
In more recent years he worked under the
direction of his famous son, John Martin
Westerlin, and he continued to be active until
he was well past eighty years old.
The marriage of Nels Westerlin took
place in the old town of Eskatorp, Sweden.
There, on December 26, 1850, Beata Jonson
became his wife. She was an exceptionally
fine wife and mother, and to her guidance
and influence throughout the years can be
credited a good share of the excellence of
personal character that distinguished her
noted son, John Martin Westerlin.
Mr. and Mrs. Westerlin will be remem-
bered with affection and respect among out-
standing Swedish residents of Chicago of the
generation past.
Nels Westerlin died December 12, 1918.
His wife died June 1, 1903.
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HEMMERLE BOWERS WILLIAMS
CARL SCHURZ WILLIAMS
HEMMERLE BOWERS WILLIAMS
CARL SCHURZ WILLIAMS
The late Hemmerle B. Williams, a
founder and the president of the Wil-
liams Organ and Piano Company, was born
in Centerville, Iowa, July 28, 1856, a son of
John Williams and Mary Elizabeth (Brad-
ley) Williams.
Early in his boyhood he went to work for
his father in the hardware store which the
family has owned and operated in Center-
ville for a long time.
He was married February 14, 1883 at
Bloomfield, Iowa, to Miss Lulu Carkhill.
They had two children, John Carkhill Wil-
liams, and Lucy Williams Kent, neither of
whom is now living.
H. B. Williams, many years ago, was one
of the founders of the Williams Organ and
Piano Company of Chicago, Illinois, mention
of which appears later in this article. He was
president of the concern.
The death of Hemmerle B. Williams oc-
curred in February, 1937.
Carl S. Williams was born at Centerville,
Iowa, June 16, 1863, a son of John Williams
and Mary Elizabeth (Bradley) Williams.
The family lived in Centerville from the
early pioneer days in that place.
Carl S. Williams attended public schools
in Centerville, and then entered Iowa Wes-
leyan College. He was graduated there in
1884 and received his Masters' degree in
1887. He was a member of the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity.
In 1887 he entered the New England Con-
servatory of Music and studied voice training
under the direction of Senor Rotalie.
Carl S. Williams later located in Chicago,
Illinois, and was soon joined there by his
brother, Hemmerle B. Williams. Together,
in association with their father, they founded
the Williams Organ and Piano Company.
This business subsequently was developed
into a very well known and successful con-
cern. It became one of the leading manu-
facturers of fine pianos and organs in this
part of the country. Its large factory, on
Fullerton Avenue in Chicago, was operated
by the Williams family until about 1925.
Carl S. Williams was treasurer and business
manager of the company. Their Epworth
Pianos and Organs, and Williams Pianos and
Organs, earned a fine reputation.
Carl S. Williams was married May 29,
1890, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss
May M. Weir. She died December 23, 1897.
They had four children: Paul, Faith, Weir,
and Bradley Williams.
In 1901 Mr. Williams married Miss
Elizabeth D. Bonnell. The family home is
in Evanston, Illinois.
Mr. Williams was a devoted member of
the First Methodist Church of Evanston,
where he served as an usher for twenty-nine
years.
He was a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan Uni-
versity for thirty years. Part of that time
he was president of the Board of Trustees.
Carl S. Williams died March 10, 1939.
He was an outstanding personality in the
history of the piano and organ industry in
Chicago for many years.
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ANDREW L. WINTERS
THE LATE Andrew L. Winters, distin-
guished lawyer in Chicago, was born in
Reading, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1864, a
son of Isaac and Mary (Flower) Winters.
Andrew L. Winters went to public schools
in Reading and then entered the law school
of Yale University. He was graduated there
with his degree in Law, in 1889.
Following that he came west to Chicago.
For a short time he taught in the old Har-
vard School. He was admitted to the Illinois
Bar in 1892.
From 1892 until his death in 1940 Andrew
L. Winters was active in the practice of law
at Chicago, a period of nearly half a cen-
tury. He earned recognition as one of the
best authorities on real estate law in this
part of the country.
Andrew L. Winters was married Decem-
ber 31, 1891 at Norwich, Connecticut, to
Miss Lillian Prior, a daughter of Charles
and Mary Prior. Mr. and Mrs. Winters
have two sons and a daughter, Charles P.
Winters, Dorothy Winters (Mrs. John E.
Lonn) and Lawrence M. Winters. The
family have made their home on the south
side of Chicago, in Beverly Hills, for many
years.
Mr. Winters was member of the American
Bar Association, the Illinois Bar Association
and the Chicago Bar Association. He was a
life member of the Hamilton Club. He was
also a charter member of the Beverly Coun-
try Club.
Andrew L. Winters died, in his seventy-
sixth year, on June IS, 1940. Every aspect
of his life was characterized by strength and
fineness. He was a man of exceptional worth.
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